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Initial Crowds I really didn't expect this many people there, and this was just the beginning! |
Beth Dressed up as a witch for the event, she looked really good and smiley the whole time. |
Anna A new friend, with more glitter than just about anyone else there. |
Hannah One of Anna's friends, with her very own Sorting Hat! (Admittedly, this is the kind of random merchandise I'd like.) |
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Harry Potter Kids "I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Harry Potter Kid!" |
Costume Contest Interviewing a Luna Lovegood, I believe. |
Costume Line I really couldn't guess who everyone is supposed to be, and I never had a good enough spot to be able to see it all anyway for context. |
Death-Eater and Hagrid Those are my guesses, anyway. |
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Shaun Hey, somebody I know! |
Tim and Beth This is actually a good picture of the two of us. Note that I at least pretended to dress up (from the waist up). |
Raffle Signup They were raffling off a chance to be first in line. |
Food Line Lines for everything! |
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Jack and Dana Again, it was good to find somebody I knew and wanted to talk to. |
Playing with a Camera This guy was trying harder to get shots of the costume contest than I was willing to do. |
Beth *smile* |
Shocked Beth I think she'd appreciate it if I stopped taking her picture here. I like the eyeshadow, though, and I don't say stuff like that often! |
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Customer Service With A Smile I think she's a bit overwhelmed. |
Karen, Charles, and Bethany I know the girls out of them. I think that's Bryan's leg on the left, too. |
Mark My assistant and an appropriately aged person to be there. Kindof. |
Dani I liked that outfit. And it's a good picture of Dani! |
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Meg and Friend I don't know who the friend is, though. |
Zeb and Klara I guess that Klara is dressed up. Kindof. |
Harry Potter Truck Or at least that's what it was scrolling. |
Bedlam Going back in was harder this time. |
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Face Painting Scars for all! |
Darren It took a while, but I did find him. |
Klara and Zeb Playing Mario Kart while waiting to get in line. |
Dad It took *way* too long to find him in the mess... |
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Sonja Good picture, as soon as I could remember her name. (Not Stephanie!) |
Deanna One of Sarah's friends, along for the ride more than anything. |
All Lined Up Hiro, Deanna, Sonja, Sarah, Dad, Dan |
Number 15 Dad liked waiting in line; it let him be a bit silly. |
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Number 100 The last of the first. Whoo! |
Guy from Comic Store Another guy whose name I don't remember. This is why it took so long for me to get these pictures up... |
Costumed Line Reading Manga while they're waiting. |
Excited Random People I really didn't know who these guys were, but they really wanted their picture taken. |
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Michael Hey! It's been a while since I've seen Michael... |
Costumes The problem with Harry Potter stuff is that the costumes can be fairly generic. I doubt they were anybody in specific, but I could easily be wrong. |
Jack One of many kids waiting in line that evening. |
Prepared Workers Waiting for the coming horde. |
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Organizing the Line Beth was Line Lord for the evening. That had to have been a tough job... |
First Box of Books To be opened right at the hour. |
Kevin and Books I've been told that the guy here is Kevin, who won the costume contest as Lupin. I don't know about the girl, but I presume she was Luna Lovegood. |
Photographing the Box Others have the same ideas as me. Well, close. |
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Wheeling More In Here they come! |
Hidden from View I wonder what those could be? |
About to Start One final smile from my love before it all begins. |
The Books That's a lot of books. |
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The First Purchase This girl (her name was Rachel) won the raffle to buy the first book. |
Happy Winner Congratulations! Now you get to go read it! |
Serving the Customers Now the other few thousand people had to be served. |
Dad in Line You can see him waving back there... |
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Three Copies Everybody needs the book! |
Dad Checks Out Of course, he had to cause trouble; he had to wait for the Book On Tape, which was still in the back. |
Success! He made it out with the books! |
First Book On Tape This is the first one sold there. |
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Tim and Bob We both survived the ordeal. Happily, Beth did too, but we wouldn't know that for a few hours... |
Reading and Smoking This doesn't seem like the most comfortable place to read it, and I suspect that she had skipped ahead a few pages... but more power to her. |
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