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Harry Potter @ Amazon

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bea · 15/06/2003 19:10

Hi! just a quickie query... as i know you ladies of mumsnet know EVERYTHING!!!

if i pre order the new harry potter book through amazon... will it get to me on the day it's released (saturday 21st) or will they despatch it on the Saturday!... ?

want to get my fix as soon as possible!!!! but can't bear the thought of dragging dd into town!

not even for harry potter!!! (well! i might!!!)

thanks

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AliP · 20/06/2003 11:37

Just checked my e-mail and my book has been dispatched - really looking forward to it - so what do you reckon the odds are that I miss getting it as baby decides to make its late arrival?!? (41+3!)
I don't want anyone to die as i'm emotional enough at the moment without having to put up with dh's sarcasm at crying my eyes out over a character in HP dying - no dh has not got into it at all.

lilibet · 20/06/2003 13:00

Mine's on its way. Yippee!! Busy weekend ahead. I saw an interview on Parkinson a good while back with one of the actors saying that their character wouldn't be in all the films. Putting two and two together on that one makes a corpse. So I know who it is, but I don't mind. If I could I would read the bit out of the American paper.

Bron · 20/06/2003 15:22

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lilibet · 20/06/2003 16:13

Was wondering how we could discuss things without spoiling it for others? Any ideas? We could start a chapter one thread and so on? So that you would know which thread to look at depending on where you are up to? I know I will want to discuss it with people, anyone else feel the same? If we are waiting till we have all finished it could be Christmas!

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Janeway · 21/06/2003 18:30

for anyone who can't wait for it to be delivered, we just picked one up at Tesco for under £10!

lilibet · 21/06/2003 18:49

Mine came this morning! Reading far too much and doing very little. Anyone else started?

hmb · 21/06/2003 19:01

Me, 2 chapters in already

pie · 21/06/2003 19:15

I'm on page 409, better not have to wait 3 years for the next one...

lilibet · 21/06/2003 19:35

409! wow, I'm on 353. Are you enjoying it?

pie · 21/06/2003 19:41

Yep, off to read some now, and can I just say without naming names that I hope the High Inquisitor gets it

lilibet · 21/06/2003 19:44

oh yes! Horrid person. Those lines! seriously cruel.

hmb · 21/06/2003 20:13

Now on page 104. I had to work this afternoon!

oxocube · 21/06/2003 20:16

PLEASE DON'T TELL!!!! We bought it this morning but as I'm reading it to ds and dd, its going to take me ages and I would hate to know the plot, esp the "victim".

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Linnet · 21/06/2003 22:27

The book arrived this morning at 9.15am, I read the first 2 chapters then had to go to work and sell harry potter books,aagghh really just wanted to sit and read them all.
I've read up to chapter 7 tonight and will read some more tonight before bed, I can see my house going to rack and ruin until I've finished this book, lol
And I don't want to know who dies until I get to that part of the book. My brother keeps saying he's going to look through the book until he finds out who it is, so I've hidden it from him as he'd probably tell me just to annoy me.

nerdgirl · 21/06/2003 22:47

Bought my copy this afternoon and up to chapter seven. We have to find a way to discuss the plot here without annoying people. I'm dying to know the reactions from my fellow Mumsnetters!

Oakmaiden · 22/06/2003 00:08

Finished it!!!

Yes, I know - I do read fast - and my family have been able to get NO reaction out of me this afternoon!

lilibet · 22/06/2003 12:19

40 pages to go! Are we starting a I've finished it thread?

kmg1 · 22/06/2003 18:47

oxocube - how old are your ds and dd? We read bks 1-3 to our ds1, (who is almost 6). But I've declined to read bk4 to him - it is so long, but also I don't think he's old enough yet to cope with the darker themes in that book. So I've told him he can read bks 4 and later himself when he's older. (He is very good reader - has read bk 1 himself, so I don't think it will be long).

Anyone else - how old were your kids when you read to them or they read to themselves bk 4 or 5?

hmb · 22/06/2003 18:54

We have read books 1-4 to dd who is 6 and a half. She had no problems coping with the length or the content of book 4, although I did have my doubts before we started it. Dh is just reading the last few pages of HP4 to her, as I am finishing the last few pages of book 5. So good timing. I don't think that she will have a problem with this one either.

lou33 · 22/06/2003 20:44

I read Harry Potter to my entire brood, who range from 11 to 2, and they all enjoy it. I thought ds2 (aged 2) wasn't really understanding it until he piped up asking for Dobby! Ds1 aged 4 1/2 is the most avid listener though.

judetheobscure · 22/06/2003 20:50

Fights are breaking out in our household as three of us all want to read HP5 at once. I get access again at 9.30pm

Bron · 23/06/2003 20:49

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Claireandrich · 23/06/2003 20:57

It isn't fair! My book arrived Saturday morning and I read 3 chapters that evening. BUT I woke up on Sunday with a really sore and painful eye. I have an eye ulcer!!! I can't see through my eye at all and it will be like that for another couple of days or so. How much bad timing is that