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Spotlight Truck This was the new item of the event - a spotlight truck to bring people from all directions. |
Spotlights at Night They look more impressive with the flash off. |
More Spotlights In fact, they look a *lot* more impressive. |
Spotlights, Rear Well, as long as one of them is at least partially facing you... |
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Early Crowds This was still an hour before anything was coming out. |
Professor Trelawny Professor of Divination, she's doing fortune telling for the kids. The best event of the event. |
More Divination She really did look the part, and the kids ate it up. |
Long Lines The age of the people was well up from two years ago, more than just the two years would account for. |
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Drawing Table There had to be some way to keep track of the bored younger folks. |
Magician Having a magician was a good plan on their part. |
Harry Potter Costume I'm still horrified at the sight of it. And grinning. |
Wizard Taking Notes On paper? How magical! |
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Discarded Glasses You gotta take a break from wizarding to play with origami, I guess. |
Trivia Contest Not a particularly well-attended one, though. |
Reading Manga The comic-readers of tomorrow? I hope so... |
Mandrake Nursery "Warning! Mandrake Nursery, Pleaes Be Quiet!" |
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Owlery They used all available space for this release. |
Beth She was playing along with me, but didn't find it as fascinating for some reason. Maybe it's because she never got around to Book Five. |
Pat He was along too, and seemed to be having a fairly good time. |
Kids and TV They were watching the third movie on DVD. |
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Kids and TV, II Certainly, it kept them busy... |
Muggle Shirt I should get one of those. |
Witch Hat Girl Most of the cute outfits were on kids of her age. |
More Costumes I feel liek I should have been able to identify them, or at least get better pictures. |
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You Know You're A Harry Potter Fan... At least it's a cauldron. |
Back to the Spotlights I was actually asked to get some shots of these things by an employee. |
Back to the Spotlights, II So who am I to argue? |
Beth in front of Pages This looked good on a high-contrast screen, I swear. |
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Tim in front of Pages This did too! |
Beth in front of the Spotlights Not that scale was a huge issue that night. |
Valet Broom Parking I wish I'd brought a mop. |
Cafe This was a secondary line, to the main book one. |
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Nearing the Time ...and so the interest is rising. |
Larger Lines I have no idea how many people were in the store. |
Still Watching TV The movie was nearly over, so that they could get to the front of the store and *BUY!*. |
More Lines I like the lone witch hat. |
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The Crowds, From Above That's a lot of people in that store. |
Spider Costume That was the most complicated costume of the night. |
Rolling In The Books Here they come! |
Second Cart of Books I believe they sold out that night, too. |
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Posing with the Books I wish I remembered her name, she went to Uni... |
Gryffindor Scarf I should get Beth to make me one. |
Books on Tape And the Extra-Expensive Editions. There weren't as many of those, for obvious reasons. |
Nearly Ready to Buy But there's still 11 minutes left! |
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Andrew He works in Beckman with me, and was one of very few familiar faces that night. (I'm getting old.) |
Friendly, Relaxed Girl The former was in strong supply, but the latter was not that night. So I appreciated her. |
Happy Tree Friends: the Book Pat's major discovery of the night. |
Hogwarts Kid I think he looked more like Snape than Harry, but I didn't have the heart to tell him that. *grin* |
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