Three years ago today...
...Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released to the world. Here are some interesting headlines surrounding the big day:
- Amazon makes history with OOTP delivery
- Mail carrier fired for delivering copy of OOTP a day early
- JK Rowling talks about Book 5 death
- Defective copies of Book 5 turn up
- Scholastic plans third printing only three days after initial release
- Amazon makes history with OOTP delivery
- Mail carrier fired for delivering copy of OOTP a day early
- JK Rowling talks about Book 5 death
- Defective copies of Book 5 turn up
- Scholastic plans third printing only three days after initial release
Posted by Andrew on Jun 20th |
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WOOT!!! i love it
Wow, was it really three years ago?! Seems like only yesterday Siri left us for good.... *nostalgic sniffle*
so when is the next big day?
wow...im gonna read order of the phoenix tonight...yay happy 3rd anniversary...happe happe...
wow 3 years aleady? *hugs book*
wow three years...thats crazyyyy (go kaeli and sister!)
*sob* R.I.P padfoot old friend..
top 10! omg d.r.'s hair is retarded
omg no one is posting a message. well i wish i got a demented copy of the hp5 book. that wouldve been cool. i've gotten demented copies of other books but a harry potter one mite become valueable in years to come. o well. its cool to revisit the past. 3 years ago today, i wasnt even a harry potter fan*gasp* i kno, its sad. but im happy i got into it. i got into it a week after the 5th book came out, so MY 3 year anniversary is coming soon. lol.
yeah! yeah! lol i'm actually re-reading ootp right now...
Happy birthday to ORDER OF THE PHOENIX! Yay!
3 years?! Wow. Time flies. Good time though... Good times.
wow!!!!time has passed so quickly..well i would like to thank JKR to give a such a beautiful world of harry potter . Well i have loads of happy and sad memories associated with harry potter and these past 15 years.
i guess this means it is the third anniversery of the death of our good friend, padfoot. we miss you ole pal! but in happier note, happy b-day OOTP!! thanks Jo for the books!!
WOW, it's been three years already?! That's amazing. I'm still bawling over Sirius......... XD;
wow... three years already... it seems like just yesterday I was dashing from my dance recital (crazy stage makeup still intact) to get to the nearest Barnes and Noble to get my copy of the book at midnight. *nostalgic sigh*
oh, poor sirius black. maybe he's with dumbledore, hiding out and having tea with severus snape.
I just finishined re-reading book 5 today. Still hate reading about Sirius though. I never had a demented copy of book five, but when I first got book six, half the pages were cut down the center. Luckiliy I relaizedit before I left! I wonder how much longer to book 7!
OMG! I remember this day! I was in year 5. I got home from school and Mum/ Dad had bought me OotP! I was so happy. I ran upstairs, sat on my bed and began to read, turning the pages ever so carefully. Then Mum started the vacuum... by sisters were yelling and running... I ended up screaming through my tears, even though being only 10 " I WAITED THREE YEARS FOR THIS BOOK SO JUST SHUUUUUT UUUP!!!". I got in so much trouble but it was so worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, it's original, I like it ;) Happy Birthday, "Order of the Phoenix"! In about a month there's going to be a year anniversary of a certain book ;) Oh, how much I wish it were the birthday of the 7th book...
I know it's great to remember this 'birthday' but are other people, besides me, getting a bit worried over the lack of information about Book 7. I mean, in the year 2004 - the year before HBP came out - the door to J.K.Rowling's site opened three times, with the first time being somewhere in March or April. April 2006 has come and gone and all we had was the WOMBAT test which told us nothing of Book 7. I'm thinking that maybe she won't get it ready until this year is past. Is anyone else thinking along the same lines or am I worrying too much?
I know it's great to remember this 'birthday' but are other people, besides me, getting a bit worried over the lack of information about Book 7. I mean, in the year 2004 - the year before HBP came out - the door to J.K.Rowling's site opened four times, with the first time being somewhere in March or April. April 2006 has come and gone and all we had was the WOMBAT test which told us nothing of Book 7. I'm thinking that maybe she won't get it ready until this year is past. Is anyone else thinking along the same lines or am I worrying too much?
Aww... it brings back so many memories...
my goodness that was a long time ago...but! on another note, im so FREAKING ready for book 7!!!!!!! hell yeah! =)
Wow. Three years!? Time flies when you're having fun, eh? Seriously, there is only ONE book left. That is too strange to think about.. I think I might pass out! *faints*
Three years already...*sigh*, memories, memories.
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Oh no!! Shes Done it again EMMA WATSON IS STILL DRINKING BEER!! With her friends this time in a LIMO.. Check out pics and information Also sign the petition>> www.funkydude.org
That's spam, funkydudetotorg. Anyway, I can't believe it's 3 years since OOTP. It seems so distant... so far... yet so near. I can still remember I was at a camp on the release date and when I woke up in the morning, it was 7:01am exactly and I was thinking, "Oh I should be at the bookshop RIGHT NOW getting my book!" Haha. When I got back from camp the next day, my sister was still reading OOTP and she was near the end of the book... Finally when it was my turn to read it, she kept giving me spoilers! I was so annoyed but I don't really blame her... I guess she was quite excited (who wouldn't be?) and couldn't help herself. At least she didn't spoil the Death for me. That would have to be my friend's fault... Ah well.
aww! i remember tht day i persuaded my sister to buy me the book! oh what joy! hmm it was alalso the date where i realised i was obsessed with harry potter only one thing to say though: we miss you sirius! R.I.P.....*sobs hysterically* :D
i dont understand the fuss, i no im gonna be controversial, but... i just dont get it. I know its a brilliant book n all, but surely y rnt se celebrating the GoF release date, the PoA CoS and PS as well. It just doesnt make sense
awwww happy bday ootp!!! *rlf*
I remember that day like it was yesterday I wasn't as obsessed as now but I still woke up right away in the morning to get the book then I read it in two days... nowadays I would have finished in by the end of the day but of corse I was on vacation during the release.
Woot i am happy 3 years since ootp YEah without out that HBP wouldnt be here and the next HP book would not be any closer.so yup that is it from me
lol, how to make 'new' news out of old news... booooring :)
wow, it's hard to believe that it was 3 years ago that OOTP came out
awww, I remember when book 5 came out. I kept thinking how great it was that we still had 3 books on the way. Now there is only one left and it's so sad. Three years ago tomorrow I was sitting in my living room, bawling my eyes out because Sirius had just died. I honestly felt sick to my stomach for like two weeks after that. lol, not that I'm crazy or anything ;) Good 'ol OOTP, my favorite
and I three years ago today I turned thirteen!
wow. I feel like it's awesome that we're almost at the end of the series and it's terrible that we're almost at the end of the series. I loved reading all the accounts of major HP parties the day after...
lol i remember that one about someone delivering it a day early! idiot! ahhh three years ago, i had just finished my GCSE's and was waiting for my copy to arrive!
Yup... I remember going to the mall and seeing the book shelf being nearly knocked down by parents... ahhh... I miss those days.
those were the good old days........now i want my book 7 I NEED IT!!
3 years ago. I remember it so well. This time 3 years ago, I was reading OOTP.
omg where does time go? it seems in some ways like book 6 never even happened that it was not so long ago we got OotP but omg 3 years.. i feel old.
wow i remeber OOTP it was the second greatest book to me next to GOF but it definately was a close race! i remember i was on vacation and i was going to save it for when i got home ...needless to say that did NOT happen haha
wow! i remember that i went to my local Hp release party! the first one i ever went to! it was awsome! i bought the book like at 9am and then i went back to the place and all 300 copies were gone! lets hope now for 7/7/07!!!!!
In response to ren_15... we're probably celebrating OOTP and not the rest cos there was the longest (and by popular opinion, most memorable, I think) wait for the book. We had 3 years to wait for it... And all the speculation and theories went WILD.
Wow...I still remember when I first opened to the first page of OoTP in the car and seeing the chapter picture of Harry in the bushes...like it was just yesterday.
3 years ago i was 8 months pregnant and was on my way out the door to the midnight party when my friend stoped me by calling and telling me to sit down that i wasn't allowed to go. pissed off i sat there as she talked to me about crazy things untill i was to tired to go so i had to wait till the next day to get my book. grrrrr. i was so mad. but considering the fact that i got the book, read it, cried my eyes out as my man sirius died, finished it 15 hours after i got it. then went into lobor i guess it was good that i din't go. i could have gone into labor in front of all thoes kids and scared them more then lv's return...so i should have named my baby lily but didn't and ever now and then i kick my self because i didn't...
i also wanted to asdd that after i finished gof i rushed out to get ootp and found out that it wasn't done and i had to wait almost 2 years freaken 2 years( that is a long time) for it. then all the fun things came out about what means what and what will happen. it was so fun.. now we are still doing it with hbp and the 7th book.. i love harry potter.
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