Midnight launch

There are no spoilers in this post. Please do NOT post spoilers in the comments.

This is me after four hours of work and four glasses of wine, after two hundred people, rampant disorganisation, people queueing around the shop and all the way down the street, hot dogs and Hogwarts hogroasts and the police wandering in to find what on earth was going on.

This is me holding the very last Harry Potter book in my hands, and with no time to read it yet!

( embargoed stock - July 21st )

And that's all you're going to hear from me for a while. I don't have time to start reading until tomorrow night, so I think I shall be absent until about Monday. See you all then.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which I have just finished

Okay, what follows under the cut is not a review of Harry Potter. It is, however, massively spoilery, and I think anyone who has both a) read the book and b) known me for any length of time, will know what it's about.

( MASSIVELY, MASSIVELY SPOILERY )

So this is me raising a late-night toast - to Harry Potter, and the stories, characters and friends I've met through him, and to ten years of my life. Cheers.