Deathly Hallows Release in Piccadilly
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mothwingThere was an amazing amount of people waiting in front of Waterstone's at Piccadilly even by the time we got there, which was around 4pm, most of them dressed up, some in really complicated and crafty outfits. The mood these guys were in was really great, it was basically one gigantic, vaguely scary party. There were a lot of spontaneous discussions among strangers prompted by signs or dresses about the series, too, it was just awesome. I am not usually a fan of great, big crowds of people, but those guys in the queue were fun to be around.
There were people from the various internet sites handing out stuff, even, like SnapeCasters who handed out Snape's Personal Shampoo, a lady who went round offering to paint lightning-shaped scars and Dark Marks (we did not go for it, though), and all sorts of people handing out flyers of sites we all know. We really should have been wearing Pensieve tees, I thought later on.
We learned that some of those guys had been there since Wednesday, camping outside the book store, in spite of the heavy rainfalls, and many had come from other countries, too, flown in only for the event. Queuing next to us were several "Beauxbaton students" from France, but there were also Italian quidditch players, Eastern European house elves, Dutch Gryffindors and German Gryffindors. There were Death Eaters who invited Crocky to "duel" the DA with them - or would have, if the cowards had showed up (thus, the Death Eaters automatically won after the period of grace they had given the DAers was up). There was a "Dumbledore", there was a Mad-eye Moody, there were the four founders, there were the Malfoys, there were two Trelawneys, there was a Firebolt, there was Hogwarts, there were several people with Hedwigs in cages - in short, it was a lot of fun which truly frightened my grandma, who saw it on telly.
Crocky has taken these great pics:
Please note the person dressed up as Hogwarts.
The specimen up there in the Dobby outfit was not the only one. There was a group of house elves rather close to the entrance.
I have to admit that we cheated, though. We more or less spontaneously went to the MuggleNet realease event at Waterstone's and thereby lost our place in the queue - and since we did not fancy only buying the book at 1am we bought it at Victoria Station instead - where the queue was much shorter.
Also, we could have directly caught the last train there, if the London Underground had not hated us, with several trains from the District line simply not showing up - I bet they were flooded, too. This time, the night bus stopped for us, though.
And, a day later:
EVERYBODY who was reading a book on the bus, the tube, or wherever, was reading HP7.
It was really awesome. Due to the flooded lines and the repairworks in another people had a lot of time to kill, of course.
We did of course take the picture everybody and their Mum have taken:
... with people, of course.
There were people from the various internet sites handing out stuff, even, like SnapeCasters who handed out Snape's Personal Shampoo, a lady who went round offering to paint lightning-shaped scars and Dark Marks (we did not go for it, though), and all sorts of people handing out flyers of sites we all know. We really should have been wearing Pensieve tees, I thought later on.
We learned that some of those guys had been there since Wednesday, camping outside the book store, in spite of the heavy rainfalls, and many had come from other countries, too, flown in only for the event. Queuing next to us were several "Beauxbaton students" from France, but there were also Italian quidditch players, Eastern European house elves, Dutch Gryffindors and German Gryffindors. There were Death Eaters who invited Crocky to "duel" the DA with them - or would have, if the cowards had showed up (thus, the Death Eaters automatically won after the period of grace they had given the DAers was up). There was a "Dumbledore", there was a Mad-eye Moody, there were the four founders, there were the Malfoys, there were two Trelawneys, there was a Firebolt, there was Hogwarts, there were several people with Hedwigs in cages - in short, it was a lot of fun which truly frightened my grandma, who saw it on telly.
Crocky has taken these great pics:
Please note the person dressed up as Hogwarts.
The specimen up there in the Dobby outfit was not the only one. There was a group of house elves rather close to the entrance.
I have to admit that we cheated, though. We more or less spontaneously went to the MuggleNet realease event at Waterstone's and thereby lost our place in the queue - and since we did not fancy only buying the book at 1am we bought it at Victoria Station instead - where the queue was much shorter.
Also, we could have directly caught the last train there, if the London Underground had not hated us, with several trains from the District line simply not showing up - I bet they were flooded, too. This time, the night bus stopped for us, though.
And, a day later:
EVERYBODY who was reading a book on the bus, the tube, or wherever, was reading HP7.
It was really awesome. Due to the flooded lines and the repairworks in another people had a lot of time to kill, of course.
We did of course take the picture everybody and their Mum have taken:
... with people, of course.
