Sayonara Harry!

I have been anxiously waiting for further instructions regarding the formatting of the fragment of Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, but having checked and rechecked Blackboard repeatedly the last few days, I focused on something else i.e. my incomplete grades and the essays I need to finish. To take a break, from the pressures of my life, I drove to my local Borders to check out the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Release Party. I got on the waiting list for a copy after they gave out the reserved ones. I had no intention of staying until after midnight to a copy after the hordes of people on the reserved list got theirs. I have one coming in the mail tomorrow and I am content to wait for that.





Although I go to special midnight screenings of the movie I have never been to a release party for the book. I went because I wanted to be able to say that I went to one and it was fun and interesting...but most importantly, it was my way of saying goodbye to Harry Potter and his friends Ron and Hermione and the multitude of other wonderful characters that brought us to another world as we read the books. J.K. Rowling took all of us avid readers of the series for a magical ride in the last decade and I am thankful for the diversion her stories provided. I am loathe to read the final book of the series because I hate goodbyes, I hate endings. I can only hope that the end of the story will not leave me too bereft. I know, I know it's only fiction but as it usually happens when I like a book that I read, with this series, I fell in love with the plot and I felt quite an attachment with the characters.


So that being said, I look forward to reading the copy I am getting in the mail tomorrow!


**hmmmnnn, I'm not sleepy yet, maybe I could return to Borders and see if I can get a copy with my waitlist ticket.** :o)