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Post by hermoine on Jul 15, 2005 12:59:27 GMT -5
So are you going to a Potter party? Are you going with your friends? Are you or anyone you know dressing up?
Share your experiences of this unforgettable night here! 
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Post by Fluffy on Jul 15, 2005 15:48:08 GMT -5
Tonight, the Haunted Bookshop will not be on Washington Street, Iowa City... but on Lytter Alley (thanks Fox Birch for the name  ).
My mum's on her way over to help set up treats and games; we'll have a Harry Potter trivia game with prizes, Quidditch ball cookies, Bertie Botts (thanks to Robin Sprout and her partner Karen), Butterbeer, and whatever else we can come up with (  ).
I'll be attending as Luna Lovegood (okay, please try to act surprised... kidding) and, while I'm selling the book at 20% off cover price, I'll let people who come in costume buy it at 30% off. The newspaper printed this detail today, so hopefully the place will be crammed tonight with people in costume ;D Photos will hopefully ensue.
Whee... anyone have any last minute ideas for the party here?
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Post by hermoine on Jul 15, 2005 15:54:06 GMT -5
It all sounds so beautiful En! Maybe you could have discussions, or I dunno a competition on who your customers think is the HBP, and you write who they think it is on paper(or anyeone could say they thought it was the right one  ), and then give them say 20% off any purchase from your shop?
It's just an idea of course.
Only yesterday I learnt the shop I ordered my copy from is opening at 1AM, so I'm getting ready as I write this. It's only 2 more hours to go over here! I want to meet Maltese Potter Geeks like myself. ;D
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Post by Fluffy on Jul 16, 2005 10:54:25 GMT -5
Un. Be. Lievable. It went well. I really think it went well. Mum came up with some games and stuff, and the 3rd film soundtrack for us to play in the background, and Karen and Robin brought Bertie Botts, and we made coffee and butterbeer (well, that wasn't so successful) and there were loads of people in costume - it's not a huge shop, just eight rooms, but there were probably 40 people, including about half the Hogwarts faculty (we got a snapshot of the faculty) and, get this, Hogwarts itself - a woman made a cardboard tower hat and had blue tissue paper on one shoulder and another tower on the other, for the lake and another part of the castle, and her friend came in a sandwichboard-type thing that made her look like a book, which was titled "Hogwarts, A History."
And kids moaned over the vomit beans (Karen actually ate one?!) and the adults went round the shop talking (bet the kids were befuddled that so many adults were in costume) and four people actually came as the Dursleys and Harry (even padded the inside of their shirts, and the dad came with a set of drill bits and kept trying to sell them to people) and loads of people drew pictures and this couple came and I really hope they come back and hang out with Hart and I because they seem incredibly cool and Moon Child arrived while I was selling the books and we hung out and talked for a while and it was just... awesome. Forty people laughing in my shop at midnight.
They left really quickly to start reading after the books started selling, but they all looked so excited.
We still have some copies left, but I know one of them will get picked up today, so that's okay.
Ahhhhh! It was okay! We did it! Hart and Mum and Karen and Robin are saints. ;D
...oh, and I think the radishes (real ones) I wore as earrings were a decent success too. You should have seen the guy at the grocery when we went to get them though - already in costume, with Hart in a cloak and carrying Pig, and me in my Hogwarts uniform and Ravenclaw tie and scarf with a wand sticking out of my trousers - and then Hart ate them at the end of the party. The earrings, not the scarf and wand. *squeee....*
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Post by hermoine on Jul 17, 2005 13:56:30 GMT -5
Wow! Everything went absolutely great then, like we all knew it would! And see, the books came in time, and they sold, and everything went as good as if you had drunk Felix Felicis.
I was rather, disappointed, with mine I suppose. I got there at 11PM, and the shop was still closed. There were only 2 girls waiting, and we weren't sure if they weren't waiting to be picked up to go to a disco.
So we wandered around, and returned at 12AM, when the shop was open. I was among the very first, and waited there, my patience running out as the minuted tickled by. The only excited thing was one of the people who runs the shop saying how many minutes were left every 5 minutes. There was a boy with a lightning bolt, but that was it.
I read an article on the newspaper, and I guess the other shop had a much better party, seeing how it was the real thing. The shop I got my copy from wasn't actually doing a party.
What made me angry really, was how, at about 10 min from 1AM, a policeman came asking how come the shop was open. IT appears some people living in that street had complained  , the foul HP haters that they are  , while the line outside the shop wasn't makimg much noise at all.
All in all, I was about the 9th person to get the book in the shop, and I was given a sort of HP-notebook you can write freely in. It has the house crests on it, and I'm deeply in love with it. ;D
Oh, and believe it or not, one of the girls in front of me, out of the blues asked, "What's the name of the book?" I was completely devastated.
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Post by Sphi on Jul 18, 2005 23:21:19 GMT -5
En, you went as Luna, radish earrings and all!? And I assume you made some sort of Butterbeer necklace too? ;D And people came as objects...how awesome. Pictures, En, we need pictures...
I know I haven't been to your bookshop (yet), but the way you described it with the eight rooms, it reminds me of our old public library.and everything went as good as if you had drunk Felix Felicis.  Oh, and believe it or not, one of the girls in front of me, out of the blues asked, "What's the name of the book?" I was completely devastated.
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Post by hermoine on Jul 19, 2005 7:20:15 GMT -5
A bookstore with 8 rooms would be humungous!!
I'm already making plans for the 7th book release, even if it's very far away, thankfully. But, I want to earn money so then I can buy a really cool shirt I like which has got "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good" on the front and "Mischief Managed" on the back. It's the furthest I can get to dressing up.
Well Sphinxie, I guess there may have been some good fans somewhere in the line outside, but I don't think they were many.
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Post by KoNeko on Jul 20, 2005 21:38:03 GMT -5
Seeing as I got my copy of HBP from the airport, well... no potter party for me. But I was wearing my Hufflepuff scarfie! ;D
En, congrats about the party! That sounds really awesome. I can't believe people dressed up as Hogwarts things as well as characters! What a success. And as Sphi said, we want to see lots of photos...
Gah, the only character that remotely looks like me from HP is Cho, and I don't think I'd be dressing up as her anytime soon...
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Post by Fluffy on Aug 28, 2005 15:35:01 GMT -5
Bwaa! I now have a couple of pictures up from the HP party in my bookstore!
Clicky.
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Post by Sphi on Aug 28, 2005 22:01:28 GMT -5
Really, pictures!? It's been a long wait!
*runs off to take a look*
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), and then give them say 20% off any purchase from your shop?
, while the line outside the shop wasn't makimg much noise at all.
