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Who can forget? OotP was the first HP book I got on the release day. And after crying so much for Sirius, I discovered mugglenet. Great memories of that summer! :o)

Wow! That means it's been 5 years since I started reading Harry Potter! (I was a late bloomer). It's been an awesome 5 years!

I started reading it on my flight to Chicago for my year as a foreign exchange student in the US.... My... that's so many years ago....

my friend has one of only 50 "super" special editions printed of ootp :)

it's been five years............ My gosh it's scary how much time's past. i'm listening to it right now. anyone elses audio tapes/cds wearing out? lol but WOW... that's scary. after 5 it was the first time i felt like it would really all end sometime... there were only 6 and 7 left.

What were the misprinted copies? And, Padfoot_Squarepants, same with me! It's been around 5 or 6 years since I started reading Harry Potter!

I was travelling from Alabama to Pennsylvania the week after the release and my mom made me wait to read it until the trip so that I had something to do. I read on the airplane, in the airports, and when I got to Pennsylvania. My cousins are potter-freaks from Hudson, Ohio where they had a HUGE release party. They all had read it by the next day after the release, so I had to finish very quickly before they ruined it for me. :-) When I finished it we all sat around talking about it for the rest of our visit.

I remember my punk cousin-in-law ruining the ending for me. We were at a Cheesecake Factory. Not even the dolce de leche cheesecake could console me.

I'd kill if someone ruined the endings. The only one that was ruined for me was the 6th one.

haha, i remember here in boise, some crazy guy somehow got ahold of a bunch of copies and mailed them out to people like a few days before it was released! my friend was one that got one. He was nice enough to write jk rowling about it and pay for the book and everything. He even didnt read it until everyone else got it at the midnight release. as for me, my mom made me wait until Christmas to read it!! it was torcher! but i found it and i read the "snapes worst memory" chapter while my mom was grocery shopping. i felt guilty afterwards, so i didnt read anymore. hahaha. yay.

Ah, fond memories. It was my first midnight release, and my first new first edition. And I still don't have books 1-4.

YAY!!!!!!! how could u 4get it?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!? ! i cried so much when sirius died........ :'(

Wow, it doesn't feel like 5 years! It was my first midnight release, also =]. I went with my dad, lol. I got it at midnight, and I was so excited because I got special permission to stay up late to read it! And what do I do? Fall asleep in the car on the way home. Hey, I was only 10! =P

Order of the Pheonix was the first midnight release I went to, and it was the weekend before my finals. I was so excited the whole time, I read it straight through the night and finished it the following afternoon, I'm pretty sure I spent at least an hour sobbing uncontrollably when Sirius died. Its odd but I really like the fifth book a lot more now than I did when it was first realeased, I think its because I appreciate Harry's adolescent agnst more now that I'm a bit removed from that phase in my own life. I cant believe it was five years ago...(as a slight side note, the excitement and various rereadings had no ill effects on my final grades).

Awesome. party! And in exactly a month it's a year after Deathly Hallows release. Great Times . Great Times.

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Can't believe it's been 5 years!!! I made my dad go out at eight in the morning the day after to get it off my cousin who had got it for me at midnight the night before, me being 8 I wasn't allowed go to that night. It was the longest book I had ever read!!! It's no.3 on my fav books ever 1.Half blood prince 2.Deathly hallows 3.Order of the phoenix. Such good memories!!!!!!

Oh man, I still can't believe it's been so long since I picked up Sorcerer's Stone at Sams. But when Order of the Phoenix came out, I wanted to go to the midnight release with my best friend and fellow HP fan. But for some reason, her sister wasn't able to pick me up, and because of my mom's work, I couldn't go with them. The next day, she called me, telling me all kinds of stuff, without spoilers of course (she was a real friend. xD), and asking if she could spend the night, so I could borrow the book. But my mom said no. I started bawling, I was so upset. I went back to the phone to tell my friend she couldn't come over, when my mom called me back into her room. I was still mad at her, until she pulled out OOTP from behind her back, telling me that her co-worker went to the midnight release to get the book for me. Man, I freaked out, to say the least. Now, anytime I'm mad at my mom, I remember that.

My first midnight release party going-to. lol. We went to the party after midnight and I wanted to get the book so bad. But we hadn't reserved a copy and the line was long and my dad said we'd get it tomorrow. I was very, very, very sad that night. lol. We did get it the next day, fortunately. One of the best days of my life. We had just moved to that location, which was Watertown, New York. We got it at Borders in the mall in Watertown.

Five years already... wow. OoTP was the first English book I ever read, because I couln't wait for it to get translated into my ownn language. I knew barely any English bck then, but I spent the entire night reading it, with a dictionary next to me and lots and lots of coffee nearby. The result: a very tired reader, who had jumped from Elementary to Intermediate literally overnight. OoTP is officially the book that taught me English, and I'm glad it did.

so by the time i started to read the harry potter series book 1-4 were already out...so when book 5 was released it was my first experience with a midnight book release....i had a lot of fun and i remember staying up till the wee hours of the morning trying to get to the end of the book, but was unsuccessful in doing so. I can't believe that was already 5 years ago....it was also my senior year of High School.

Yay! I enjoyed reading it so much. Reading the whole DoM in the middle of the night was just fitting. While I usually remember the part when I opened a new HP book, as I read this post I suddenly realised that I've forgetten the feeling I had when I opened this particular one. It could be that I got sucked into it too fast to take notice of it. I loved it immidietly. The 21 of June was also the first day of the summer holiday that year and the feelings were so good! It is until today one of my favourite 7 books in the whole world!

I remember. I had the end ruined for me. I was told Ron, my favorite character at the time, died. LOL

I had to wait 3 weeks to read it because I had to order it off Amazon, and it takes so long to arrive here. I remember being told Hagrid died in this book, which had me so upset, and was so relieved when I realized that didn't happen. It was also the first Harry Potter book I read in english, since I'd read the first 4 in spanish. It took me a long time to finish it, but it was worth it!

omg i remember when that book came out. that was the summer that i had read the first four in one week for the first time. i was soo excited for the 5th one and it was the 1st one i bought the day it came out. of course i cried for like the whole night when my favorite character died but other than that its one of the best books in the world.

I remember I preordered it, so I had to wait until it came in the mail. I was in the store looking longingly at it, but I couldn't buy since I knew it was waiting for me at home... Once I got there, I read non-stop. Then, the next school day, I had yet to finish (I was 11... it took a while) one of my friends ruined the ending for me, and when I yelled at him, I ruined it for my entire class. I finished it the next week. I can't believe it's been 5 years...

My god, I cant believe that its been five years. So much has happened. I remember that day it came out, I was so ecstatic. I had already been a huge fan of hte books for two years then, but I was still a person that always borrowed from the library. The week after the release was torture for me. The book obviously, was on hold for me for a long while. Then one day when I was about to go out with my dad, I see the book on the bottom stairs. I just stood sooo shock. I was afraid to touch it, thinking that it wasnt meant for me (i dont know what I was thinking). So making sure no one was around. I opened, smelled it(yes, and it smelled good!), and read the table of contents and all over the covers without actually readin the book. The an hour later, my dad says, the book is a friend of his, and that i'm allowed to borrow it. I was soooo happy I screamed to my sister (a HP fan too). But yeah. I remember I read like over a hundred pages that day. I was a slow reader at the time. I finished it five days. The best five days ever! I still cry everytime I read Beyond the Veil and The Lost Prophecy. And I've read the 5th book five times. lol. The highlight of my summer that year of 03.

Holy crap, that was already 5 years ago??? Whoaaaa...well my memory of the fifth was being so excited when reading about Harry's first kiss. I had already been excited to read the longest book of the series, and when I was at my sister's softball game, reading, and on the verge of squealing after reading the kiss.

I bought OotP at a B&N, but my mum confiscated it saying that I needed to finish my summer school course before I could read it. (I read bits and pieces when she wasn't home. :) She finished it and told me that she thought Sirius had a "Spock syndrome" (any trekie fans out there?) Gosh, has it been five years?!? I was in middle School. Now I'm in College. yesh. Harry Potter really has grown up with me.

OMG i remember how much i was anticipating this book so i got a reserved card little thing at hastings for like 5 dollars and i lost it...then my mom got the book and i read to the chapter In a Hog's Head and i thought the book was boring so i put it down for a few years...i went through two hp obsessions my first was when i was ten and after the fifth book got boring i stopped then i started again when the fifth movie came out lol and i have no idea how i thought the book was boring!! geeze!!!

My son who is 11 days older than Dan turned me onto the books around book three, so book 4 and five where my faves. I remember we stayed up till midnight to get the book at a "Potter Party"....then went home and read all night....I even called in sick to work the next day...thats how much I loved the book....I still read them over and over way into the night sometimes....Thank you so much JKR....you rock..ps son if you can read this you make me crazy proud serving our country....

Wow, does time fly.... I remember counting it down to the second. That was the first midnight release I attended because before that I never had to wait for a book. I was ten years old. The Borders cafe was serving "butterbeer," and the description sounded supremely gross, but I tried it anyway and found it to be very tasty. Somewhere around eleven, I got a nasty headache and sat in a corner :(. I planned to stay up all night with the book, but I decided to make sure I was taking in all the details instead, so I only read the first chapter. Unfortunately, the ending was spoiled for me at summer camp, despite my desperate demands to people to stop talking about it whenever I was near. I was furious with myself for not reading it faster.

SaraLiz, I live near Hudson and I went to the huge release party that night... I remember the place was completely mobbed with people dressed like the characters, and the line at the bookstore was insane. Me and my friend stuck around for a bit before we decided to go to Wal-Mart at midnight instead of waiting in that gigantic line in Hudson. Got our books right at midnight and didn't stop reading until 4 in the morning. Good times with OOTP.

I can't believe it's been that much already. I remember my aunt from London had promised to buy it for me (as she had done up to that point for the previous ones too) and give it to me as a birthday present when she came over to Malta for her holiday in August!! The weeks before she came over were agonising. I remember once I walked into a bookshop and saw a copy of OotP and I couldn't resist not reading some snippets. I nearly began screaming out aloud in the bookshop when I read the bit about the dementors attacking Harry and Dudley.

Wow... Five years. You know what's weird? I actually woke up this morning and I noticed the date on my iHome was 6/21 and I immediately thought, "Hmm... didn't a Harry Potter book get released on this date a few years ago?" and then I got sad thinking how we're never going to get another Harry Potter story. The first time reading Order of the Phoenix, it was my least favorite due to the fact that Sirius died, and I actually took that death really hard. The first time I read it through, I thought it was a really depressing book, but now after re-reading it and seeing it's movie, it's not my least favorite (I think my least favorite is Chamber of Secrets). Aww... I miss reading new HP books and not knowing what will happen!

OMG five years! thats gone quite fast! i remember my mu had to get it for me really early because i needed it before i had to perform in a show in our town, and i always almost missed coming on stage because i was so absorbed in the story lol :D

As a side note, thank you to mugglemedic's son for his service. It goes unnoticed how much you guys do and I'd like to thank you for it :) As for OOTP I think for most of us it was the first hard cover book we read. I was a late bloomer (I refused to read the books and was forced to see the movie) and I remember counting down the days and then when I woke up I flew downstairs and told my mom we had to go to the store. My mom had gotten up early and gotten that book so that it was ready when I woke up. I hugged my mom and hauled myself up in my room for about 24 hours. I only left for a total of like 3 hours because I was forced to eat and shower and my mom said I had to spend some time outside, yeah I sorta snuck the book out with me and read at the park. Like many of you, it was the book that made me realize that the series was going to end, and I may not like how it ends. Sirius' death hit me hard, but not as hard as Dumbledore's. My friends thought I was crazy because I didn't do anything with them until I had read it twice; well, my friends still think I'm crazy. I can't believe it's been 5 years already...

Wow, I'm re-reading the series and finished GoF/started on OotP around midnight last night, unbeknownst to this monumental occasion. Coincidence? I think not.

Mmm, I remember I read the Sirius part on my way back home from my grandmothers houe. I started crying silently in the back seat the rest of the way home as I struggled through car sickness to finish the book.

I first started reading the Harry Potter series when I was 9. Harry Potter really was the reason I learned to love reading. I had been waiting for OOTP to come out for about a year, and when it did I was sooo excited. We went to the store early in the morning and picked it up. ( We had mine pre-bought, and for good reason the store was packed.) I was only 10 and I finished it in a day. I remember staying up all night to finish it, and when Sirius died I started bawling and my Mom had to come in and ask what was wrong. I still think of OOTP as my favorite Harry potter book. I can't belive it's been 5 years.

I remember running around the house with it after it came in the mail. Then I read it and I was surprisingly not too upset that Sirius died. I loved him and all but I just felt like I didn't get the chance to get to know him as much as, say, Dumbledore. Then I cried because I didn't know what I was going to do waiting for the next one.

i remember my dad reading it to me. he does an *AWESOME* impression of Dobby and kreacher! those were the best time of my life! i had to reread it of course because i was like 10 then and now i appreciate it a lot More!

Wow, I can't believe it's been five years! I remember that prior to the release, our local newspaper has a OotP bookmark you could cut out, and I cut it out and used it! I still have it! And I still can't believe it's been HALF A DECADE! :D

I started to get really into Harry Potter because of my sisiter. I remember her buying OOTP while on vacation at my aunt's house. My aunt and my sister really don't get along well, but my sister whined until my mom told my aunt to make sure she gets the book the day it comes out. My aunt's family didn't really understand the whole thing of getting it the day it comes out and not eating or sleeping until you finish the entire book...but that summer I started reading Harry Potter and OOTP opened my mind to a magical world. Till today its my favorite book!

omg so long ago...I was only 8 when it came out, and my awesome cousin (who was i think 17 at the time) called me and said he was going to a book party for harry potter. I thought it was the coolest thing. I didnt even know what it was called! I was amazed that my cousin had all this knowledge, and i reserved it at the library (i was 3rd). I finished it on my grandmothers bed while visiting. I was crying when Sirius died, and my family couldnt understand why I was so sad. Then I remembered that there were still 2 books left...

I sat in the big chair in my living room, staring out the window, waiting for the ups man to bring me my book for hours. My parents went out to the grocery store and bought another copy for my sister to read, but when it was noon, and I still didn't have my book, they let me read that one. My dad went to look on the website, and they said that the book had been delivered two hours ago. One problem, it was at my old house - they never changed the address! So my dad went to get it, and I settled down to read. About two hours and 300 pages later, my friend rang the doorbell for me to come over. Against my wishes, my parents made me go outside. I've never forgiven them! But I still love that book!

I pre-order the book from the library. I didn't buy any of the books until last year. it's the funniest book that I read. Yes, I know Harry was angry a lot, and Sirius died, but it was sooo funny reading about Harry razzing on Dudley. And The Weasley twins-- the mayhem they created just before they left! And how they left! The saddest part for me, was after Sirius died. When Harry was in Dumbledore's office and he couldn't stand it any more, the pain was unbearable to him. And Dumbledore wouldn't let him out of the office and Harry startedd throwing things. I wish all of that was in the movie.

i was on a girl scout trip at the beach when it came out *lol* i had to wait a whole day after it came out to get my hands on it. gosh that was so long ago, i was 13 then. this was the first book that our family had to buy multiple copies of b/c we were all too anxious to wait for eachother to finish reading. my mom and my sister had gone to the bookstore to buy it the morning it came out, but they were sold out and so my sister broke down crying right in the store, lol. they drove to walmart and got it there.

f-FIVE WHOLE YEARS?!?!?! I was nine going on ten....omigod...I was young...omigod. holy. split. banana peels. Wow. I got it early in the morning the day it was released. I remember it took me seven and a half hours to finish it, even with my mom trying to get me to do chores around the house. Wow...what memories...