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[felis_ultharus]

They've just announced the release date of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: July 21, 2007.

For a Christian (and she is Christian, contrary to all the fundy paranoia) she certainly has a Pagan sense of timing. She announced a couple of the books at Solstices, and this one is being published a few days short of the Summer Solstice.

(And she announced this on Imbolc. And Halloween has a central role in most of her books.)

This is the last book in the series -- the one where we get to find out if Harry lives or dies. And it's coming out one week after the fifth movie. Anyone living anywhere in Western Civilization who doesn't like Harry Potter is advised to phase out of existence for a week. If World War III happens, it won't be on the news until the world has read book 7.

EDIT: Feeling like an idiot for mixing up June and July. My only excuse is that I have a head addled by data entry this week.

Comments

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

The summer solstice is around JUNE 21, though, right?

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Yep. That was sort of my point -- it's the Saturday closest, and every book in the series comes out on a Saturday.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Ah. I thought it was coming out a month later on JULY 21. I haven't been paying much attention, as you can see ...

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

*hangs head in shame as he realizes that he's mixed up June and July*

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

*joins in shame of realizing that she has not bothered to actually look up the date*

We're a pair ...

[infinitecomplex.livejournal.com]

*marks calendar*

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I'm pre-ordering from a Quebec-based bookstore. They won't be open all night, but there weren't any lineups for Half-Blood Prince, neither.

[sugar-spun.livejournal.com]

She put out the Order of the Phoenix on a solstice, too. I remember we went to the festival at Tara, and everyone on the bus was reading it. I'd sat up all night to finish mine and amused myself discussing it loudly while throwing out spoilers-that-weren't.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Now I'm wondering what fake spoilers you made up :)

[sugar-spun.livejournal.com]

I killed Hagrid and expressed my surprise at McGonagall's secret marriage.

I may also have put a person or two permanently in St Mungo's.