Harry Potter Release Date

[Paul Tao]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will hit stores July 21st (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-02-01T121318Z_01_WLB4384_RTRUKOC_0_US-BLOOMSBURY-HARRY-POTTER.xml&src=rss).

[FOBcareemo]

stoked....this will signal the end of an era of my life....

[Isolated]

Yay, oh wow!
Oh wait... I'm not a 12 year old girl.

[Greg]

i am excited

[Greg]

have you even read any of the books?

[Paul Tao]

have you even read any of the books?
I've read all of them.

[slickwataris]

sweet that's my sissy's birthday

[Exit30six]

could have been cooler if the 7th book came out on 7/7/07... they'll be late by 2 weeks. damn.

[fredrico0012]

actually that would be pretty cool. YOu should suggest it to the people.

[bigmountainjohn]

What a great month July will be!

[Paul Tao]

In other news, did anyone hear that the guy who plays Harry Potter has naked pics (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/01/people.danielradcliffe.ap/index.html) now?

[JustAnotherPoet]

disappointing, i'm gonna miss locking myself in my room until i finish reading the whole series just to keep up with it...

[Tom Good]

In other news, did anyone hear that the guy who plays Harry Potter has naked pics (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/01/people.danielradcliffe.ap/index.html) now?I saw that. Daniel Radcliffe, who woulda though. And bestiality too?

[sirrie]

stoked....this will signal the end of an era of my life....

agreed

[gonfreaks]

Yes! Although not the best written books I've ever read, getting a new one is like a huge event. I cannot wait!

[falloutboy.]

very excited, these movies have been amazing.

[TinyLittleOwl]

i'm totally jazzed.

[animmortalsoul]

I now know what I'm going to spend my birthday (July 22) doing.

[thewebguy]

hell yeah, now i finally get to make my own video like this one:
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edit: that is, if it leaks.. and i read it.. crap.

[blnk1805]

Yay, oh wow!
Oh wait... I'm not a 12 year old girl.

my thoughts exactly

[keeplioving]

I saw that. Daniel Radcliffe, who woulda though. And bestiality too?


well honestly now, who doesn't enjoy good horse porn?!

[cyndaroo]

Finally.

Dumbledore is NOT dead.

[stuntmaniac]

LMAO "SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE" ..... hehe i was quite peed off when i got told :( nd I dnt want HP 2 finish, its like a sign of m youth draining away from me :S

[monkeyofdoom]

when will it leak :-p

[yourneck]

wow. that's not even that far away really. i'm stoked!

[lindZ629]

i'm excited! only about 5 more months

[StevieShotgun]

this would probably be interesting news if there was anyone in 5th grade or lower that read this site.

[Obiwankainobi]

i can't wait...what an incredible series of books (and movies).

[Stephie]

Finally.

Dumbledore is NOT dead.

agreed.

I am totally stoked for this book. and the 5th movie.

[christophaaa]

i wonder how many bands on warped tour will have a copy in their posession.

[mallorylane13]

could have been cooler if the 7th book came out on 7/7/07... they'll be late by 2 weeks. damn.

it so should have been 7/7/07 for the 7th book!

[TAYF152]

I don't think you have to be a 5th grade girl to enjoy this series... Just someone who can appreciate good writing and doesn't mind being a kid every now and then.

[qwertyboy5000]

I'm so freaking excited for this!

[alexwohl29_90]

I can't wait.

[pinkzeppelin182]

I'm pumped for this

I bet the entire time neville was actually the boy who lived like talked about in the last book and harry is just a nobody who fell over and got a wierd scar on his forehead the first time he walked.

[noodledancer]

exciting!
hopefully i'll being paying for it with one of my first real paychecks.

[Greg]

Dumbledore IS dead

deal with it

[SuperJoe]

this would probably be interesting news if there was anyone in 5th grade or lower that read this site.

well i'm 24, will be 25 when it comes out and i'm very excited. i'm well educated, have a fantastic job, have a great social life, and am equally into sports as much as i am into music. after reading your post, i first thought to myself "wow joe, you must be an anomaly!" but then i considered the amount of people my age and older who enjoy these books, and the author's ability to so meticulously create a fictional world, with a compelling story line, and great plot twists.... it was then i realized you just must be a douchebag.

[garlicgirl1210]

i love this random picture for random icon posts. nice.

[StevieShotgun]

i have honestly sat here for the last 5 minutes trying to figure out if any of you are serious. I mean, some of you are very convincing. But I have to think you are joking. Do grown adults really read kids book? I know you think I am being sarcastic here, but I really can't figure out for the life of me what the hell you guys are talking about.

[Kif]

Harry dies.

[sirrie]

it so should have been 7/7/07 for the 7th book!

Apparently i think its harry (and JK rowling)'s birthday on the book release date.. but 7.7.7 would of been cool.

[12:46AM]

Finally.

Dumbledore is NOT dead.yes. he is.

LMAO "SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE" ..... hehe i was quite peed off when i got told :( nd I dnt want HP 2 finish, its like a sign of m youth draining away from me :Senglish please.

Dumbledore IS dead

deal with itthank you.

well i'm 24, will be 25 when it comes out and i'm very excited. i'm well educated, have a fantastic job, have a great social life, and am equally into sports as much as i am into music. after reading your post, i first thought to myself "wow joe, you must be an anomaly!" but then i considered the amount of people my age and older who enjoy these books, and the author's ability to so meticulously create a fictional world, with a compelling story line, and great plot twists.... it was then i realized you just must be a douchebag.hahahahaha.

i have honestly sat here for the last 5 minutes trying to figure out if any of you are serious. I mean, some of you are very convincing. But I have to think you are joking. Do grown adults really read kids book? I know you think I am being sarcastic here, but I really can't figure out for the life of me what the hell you guys are talking about.if you haven't read them, then you have no right to pass judgement.

[12:46AM]

Harry dies.i wouldn't be surprised.

[StevieShotgun]

im so intriqued by this that I had to do some research on this "adults reading childrens books" phenomenon an it is amazing how many researchers, doctors, phychologists, etc. argue that reading Harry Potter is sort of a substitute for gays and lesbians coming out. Essentially, closet homosexuals can relate to Harry:

"
The interplay between the world of magic and the world of Muggles in the Potter books is identical to how queer historians and sociologists describe the interplay between the closeted gay world and the mainstream world, particularly in the days before the gay-liberation movement. Homosexuals were everywhere, yet heterosexuals usually could not see them. Gay bars looked just like straight bars from the outside. Gay people invented elaborate codes, often in language, dress, and deportment, so they could recognize one another but not be seen as abnormal by the heterosexual — Muggle — world. In his book Gay New York,historian George Chauncey writes of the "invisible map" that exists in all cities that enables queers to find fellow travelers and assembling places: people and places usually invisible to the unknowing heterosexual. This is precisely the situation in the Potter books, where Hogwarts, Diagon Alley (where the magic shops are), 12 Grimmauld Place (the meeting place of Order of the Phoenix), Azkaban Fortress, and even magical buses and trains that run out of major terminals exist in the middle of large cosmopolitan cities and yet remain invisible to Muggles who simply cannot see them."

It's unfortunate that we live in a country where homesexuals have to excape in to a book because they are so unaccepted in the "real world". Maybe once we cast George from office we can finally work our way towards acceptance...

[googirl8907]

Sweet!

[shadowofmyself]

This is my excited face!! :clap: I can't wait. Plus, isn't this right after the 5th movie comes out?

[takingbackrufio]

So incredibly stoked for this. I've been held over by re-reading (and re-reading again) the former books, but I'm definitely ready for a new one.

[Branevember31]

Awesome...this summer is going to be Harry-Potter-goodness, and i cant wait

[danehildebrandt]

im so intriqued by this that I had to do some research on this "adults reading childrens books" phenomenon an it is amazing how many researchers, doctors, phychologists, etc. argue that reading Harry Potter is sort of a substitute for gays and lesbians coming out. Essentially, closet homosexuals can relate to Harry:

"
The interplay between the world of magic and the world of Muggles in the Potter books is identical to how queer historians and sociologists describe the interplay between the closeted gay world and the mainstream world, particularly in the days before the gay-liberation movement. Homosexuals were everywhere, yet heterosexuals usually could not see them. Gay bars looked just like straight bars from the outside. Gay people invented elaborate codes, often in language, dress, and deportment, so they could recognize one another but not be seen as abnormal by the heterosexual — Muggle — world. In his book Gay New York,historian George Chauncey writes of the "invisible map" that exists in all cities that enables queers to find fellow travelers and assembling places: people and places usually invisible to the unknowing heterosexual. This is precisely the situation in the Potter books, where Hogwarts, Diagon Alley (where the magic shops are), 12 Grimmauld Place (the meeting place of Order of the Phoenix), Azkaban Fortress, and even magical buses and trains that run out of major terminals exist in the middle of large cosmopolitan cities and yet remain invisible to Muggles who simply cannot see them."

It's unfortunate that we live in a country where homesexuals have to excape in to a book because they are so unaccepted in the "real world". Maybe once we cast George from office we can finally work our way towards acceptance...

If you are suggesting that the million people around the WORLD who read this book are homosexuals afraid to come out of the closet, i feel sorry for your ignorance. Why can you not accept that they are jsut good books with a large audience of all ages?

[StevieShotgun]

If you are suggesting that the million people around the WORLD who read this book are homosexuals afraid to come out of the closet, i feel sorry for your ignorance. Why can you not accept that they are jsut good books with a large audience of all ages?

I am NOT suggesting that, and I apologize if I was not clear on that. Please note that the large paragraph above was a quote, nit my writing. I was saying that I was amazed how many others are suggesting that.

I'm not nearly educated enough on the subject to make that kind of statement.

That being said, I do love to gamble...and I would give any takers 4-1 on their money that if you polled 1,000 men who have read "Harry Potter" and 1,000 men who have read...i dont know...say..."The Audacity of Hope"...a higher percentage of the men who read Harry Potter would be gay.

Before you rip on me...please note that I am not saying I am right. Im just saying that I like my odds. Its like I put $500 large on the Colts this weekend because I THINK they are going to win (by 7) , but Im not saying they ARE going to win.

I digress.

[*crying stars*]

Yes.
Whoever says that these books are strictly books for kids hasn't read the 5th book on.

In other news, did anyone hear that the guy who plays Harry Potter has naked pics (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/01/people.danielradcliffe.ap/index.html) now?

Whoa. That's intense.

[SuperJoe]

im so intriqued by this that I had to do some research on this "adults reading childrens books" phenomenon an it is amazing how many researchers, doctors, phychologists, etc. argue that reading Harry Potter is sort of a substitute for gays and lesbians coming out. Essentially, closet homosexuals can relate to Harry:

"
The interplay between the world of magic and the world of Muggles in the Potter books is identical to how queer historians and sociologists describe the interplay between the closeted gay world and the mainstream world, particularly in the days before the gay-liberation movement. Homosexuals were everywhere, yet heterosexuals usually could not see them. Gay bars looked just like straight bars from the outside. Gay people invented elaborate codes, often in language, dress, and deportment, so they could recognize one another but not be seen as abnormal by the heterosexual — Muggle — world. In his book Gay New York,historian George Chauncey writes of the "invisible map" that exists in all cities that enables queers to find fellow travelers and assembling places: people and places usually invisible to the unknowing heterosexual. This is precisely the situation in the Potter books, where Hogwarts, Diagon Alley (where the magic shops are), 12 Grimmauld Place (the meeting place of Order of the Phoenix), Azkaban Fortress, and even magical buses and trains that run out of major terminals exist in the middle of large cosmopolitan cities and yet remain invisible to Muggles who simply cannot see them."

It's unfortunate that we live in a country where homesexuals have to excape in to a book because they are so unaccepted in the "real world". Maybe once we cast George from office we can finally work our way towards acceptance...

how can we ever work towards acceptance when the 31 year old leaders of our world are spending their thursday afternoons comparing and contrasting the pathetical weak correlation between a fictional book and homosexual tendencies? by stealing a quote from another site, do you feel more affirmed in your conquest over a vast majority of teenage/college students on a music message board? do you think this makes you sound intelligent, or merely desperate to escape the confines of the basement bedroom of your mother's home that you undoubtedly live in. have a good time at the bar tonight, telling all of your obviously highly intellectual friends how well you "owned those ankle biters" on the internet, sitting behind some monitor and a keyboard covered in grease and used tissues from the amount of times you beat off to your downloaded copy of debbie does dallas: the new generation and b-list pornos from some crappy p2p network. tell them how astonished you are that civilized adults could be so enamored by a "fictional piece of literature", then proceed to go to poker night and watch some tarantino movie that is obviously based off real life experiences and is more of a documentary than entertainment.

dick.

[MightCatchFire]

hellz yeah.

[cyndaroo]

Dumbledore IS dead

deal with it
uhh..I can't deal with it, obviously. Dumbledore is NOT dead (http://dumbledoreisnotdead.com)!

[MightCatchFire]

how can we ever work towards acceptance when the 31 year old leaders of our world are spending their thursday afternoons comparing and contrasting the pathetical weak correlation between a fictional book and homosexual tendencies?

dick.
pathetical?

[StevieShotgun]

how can we ever work towards acceptance when the 31 year old leaders of our world are spending their thursday afternoons comparing and contrasting the pathetical weak correlation between a fictional book and homosexual tendencies? by stealing a quote from another site, do you feel more affirmed in your conquest over a vast majority of teenage/college students on a music message board? do you think this makes you sound intelligent, or merely desperate to escape the confines of the basement bedroom of your mother's home that you undoubtedly live in. have a good time at the bar tonight, telling all of your obviously highly intellectual friends how well you "owned those ankle biters" on the internet, sitting behind some monitor and a keyboard covered in grease and used tissues from the amount of times you beat off to your downloaded copy of debbie does dallas: the new generation and b-list pornos from some crappy p2p network. tell them how astonished you are that civilized adults could be so enamored by a "fictional piece of literature", then proceed to go to poker night and watch some tarantino movie that is obviously based off real life experiences and is more of a documentary than entertainment.

dick.

dont call me dick, you fucking clown.

first of all, I put quotes around the exerpt from the piece that I read. How you classify that as stealing I dont know.

Secondly, read my followup post...I make it very clear that I dont have enough information on the subject (hell, Ive never even read the books) to say if proponents of this theory are correct or not.

Boy, that Penn State education your daddy bought you really paid off huh. Jesus Christ you are fucking stupid. Read man Read!

[StevieShotgun]

pathetical?

now THATS funny.

[12:46AM]

uhh..I can't deal with it, obviously. Dumbledore is NOT dead (http://dumbledoreisnotdead.com)!interestin g theories. yet, you can "prove" any theory if you try hard enough. i'm still not convinced.

dumbledore's dead.

[StevieShotgun]

how can we ever work towards acceptance when the 31 year old leaders of our world are spending their thursday afternoons comparing and contrasting the pathetical weak correlation between a fictional book and homosexual tendencies?

by the way, im not 31. Who puts their real age on a message board?

AND...you can't "compare and contrast a correlation". A correltation is a single item and therefore you would be comparing and contrasting it to itself, which is not really possible.

Now, you could "examine the correlation..." or perhaps "explore the correlation..." but yeah, you definately could not compare and contrast it.

Man, your education must have been pathetical.

[12:46AM]

now THATS funny.thats?

[StevieShotgun]

thats?

yes, "that's" is short for "that is". You'll probably learn it next year. Oh, shit, i forgot. You guys speak french in Canada. Never mind. And tell your buddies in France to stop being such pussys all the time. Get off the fence for christs sake.

[PaintMeBlue]

yessssssssssssssss! that should give me enough time to read the first six over again!

[music_is_my_boy]

yay! can't wait! whsmiths has already started the pre-orders, started bout 2 weeks ago methinks

[SuperJoe]

pathetical?

think i was going for pathetically, but good call out

dont call me dick, you fucking clown.

first of all, I put quotes around the exerpt from the piece that I read. How you classify that as stealing I dont know.

Secondly, read my followup post...I make it very clear that I dont have enough information on the subject (hell, Ive never even read the books) to say if proponents of this theory are correct or not.

Boy, that Penn State education your daddy bought you really paid off huh. Jesus Christ you are fucking stupid. Read man Read!

i'm sorry, my rich parents taught me that it's not polite to pass judgment and make assertions on things that i know nothing about. your follow-up post (which was not posted when i started typing my response) points out that you acknowledge your ignorance. i also learned at my university for wealthy people, that if "acceptance" is truly what you strive for in life, then making gross generalizations about a demographic of people who read fictional literature and stapling them as closet homosexuals is probably not the best way to do that. now please excuse me, i have to go pick up my escalade from the shop (needed some bigger wheels, you know ho it is), buy some starch for my polo collars, book my trip to fiji, and then stop by the local wine bar for some wine sampling and hor'dourves.

dick.

[StevieShotgun]

that if "acceptance" is truly what you strive for in life, then making gross generalizations about a demographic of people who read fictional literature and stapling them as closet homosexuals is probably not the best way to do that.

As you have already stated, I was simply posting what I thought to be an interesting theory, not making a generalization.

Also, I dont remember EVER saying that you were rich. I might have said your daddy paid your way through college (am I wrong?) but that is alot different than being rich.

I mean, look at your bathroom for gods sake. There is room for one person in there...and you have a plastic shower curtain. If you ever get a real job and can afford to live in a respectable place, let me suggest a jetted tub. I have two of them and they are, as the kids say, "the shit".

Next time you want to attack somebody personally you might want to take down all evidence supporting the fact that you are rather pathetic piece of shit.

A plastic shower curtain. wow.

[goddamngourd]

snape kills dumbledore

[SuperJoe]

yes, "that's" is short for "that is". You'll probably learn it next year. Oh, shit, i forgot. You guys speak french in Canada. Never mind. And tell your buddies in France to stop being such pussys all the time. Get off the fence for christs sake.

not a big fan of grammar, huh? now i understand why you can't read the harry potter books....

it's okay, maybe after mom makes you meatloaf tonight, she can explain remedial grammar skills to you, before your lesson in foreign policy and american history. (you do realize that the "pussys (sic) in france saved our asses in the american revolution right? oh yeah, ignorant conservatives don't know how to debate with facts that pre-date 1998.) not to mention, i think the "get off the fence" cry is only about 4-years outdated. in case you haven't noticed, even the gop has acknowledged our mistake in iraq.

[SuperJoe]

As you have already stated, I was simply posting what I thought to be an interesting theory, not making a generalization.

Also, I dont remember EVER saying that you were rich. I might have said your daddy paid your way through college (am I wrong?) but that is alot different than being rich.

I mean, look at your bathroom for gods sake. There is room for one person in there...and you have a plastic shower curtain. If you ever get a real job and can afford to live in a respectable place, let me suggest a jetted tub. I have two of them and they are, as the kids say, "the shit".

Next time you want to attack somebody personally you might want to take down all evidence supporting the fact that you are rather pathetic piece of shit.

A plastic shower curtain. wow.

it's called a "college apartment". had you gone to college, you might realize that most apartment complexes don't offer your luxurious jetted tubs. you almost might have learned that "alot" is in fact two whole words! actually, you might have learned that in elementary school, but you were undoubtedly more preoccupied with seeing how you could make that jet stream tickle your special place when mommy wasn't watching.

seriously, you might be legally retarded.

[StevieShotgun]

not a big fan of grammar, huh? now i understand why you can't read the harry potter books....

it's okay, maybe after mom makes you meatloaf tonight, she can explain remedial grammar skills to you, before your lesson in foreign policy and american history. (you do realize that the "pussys (sic) in france saved our asses in the american revolution right? oh yeah, ignorant conservatives don't know how to debate with facts that pre-date 1998.) not to mention, i think the "get off the fence" cry is only about 4-years outdated. in case you haven't noticed, even the gop has acknowledged our mistake in iraq.

dude. Im so anti-war it is ridicuous. Im about as liberal as they come and would not be unhappy to see Bush tried for war crimes.

If you think the War in Iraq is the only thing France is "on the fence" about, then you are the one in need of further education.

Not a big fan of capitalization huh?

I mean, are you really stooping to correcting my grammar? ALways the first sign that you are losing the battle.

[StevieShotgun]

it's called a "college apartment". had you gone to college, you might realize that most apartment complexes don't offer your luxurious jetted tubs. you almost might have learned that "alot" is in fact two whole words! actually, you might have learned that in elementary school, but you were undoubtedly more preoccupied with seeing how you could make that jet stream tickle your special place when mommy wasn't watching.

seriously, you might be legally retarded.

I'm in college myself. And maybe if you were at work right now instead of typing on some message board you could make enough to afford a nice apartment while going to college like I do.

www.monster.com (http://www.monster.com)


Keep picking apart my spelling and grammar...it just shows you cant win the argument on merit. And im certainly not going to waste my time stopping to spell check.

Seeing as how I have officially "bitch slapped" you in 3 consecutive posts with your best comeback being "you dont spell good!" im gonna move on.

Enjoy the new Harry Potter book and the High School Musical DVD you keep renting.

[SuperJoe]

dude. Im so anti-war it is ridicuous. Im about as liberal as they come and would not be unhappy to see Bush tried for war crimes.

If you think the War in Iraq is the only thing France is "on the fence" about, then you are the one in need of further education.

Not a big fan of capitalization huh?

I mean, are you really stooping to correcting my grammar? ALways the first sign that you are losing the battle.

so you're liberal.... and are all about acceptance.... yet you brush off canadians as "fence riding french pussys (sic)". yeah that makes sense.

and the fact that you actually think you can win an online battle pretty much reaffirms everything i have said about you to begin with. and damn, i thought i had a good 3 touchdown lead on you. oh poop! guess i should wave my white flag. after meatloaf tonight, you can tell your mommy how you really rustled some feathers on ap.net and you won! you won good! you won real good!

[12:46AM]

now THATS funny.

yes, "that's" is short for "that is". You'll probably learn it next year. Oh, shit, i forgot. You guys speak french in Canada. Never mind. And tell your buddies in France to stop being such pussys all the time. Get off the fence for christs sake.uhhh... buddy? i was obviously pointing out the lack of apostrophe in your original post. also, thank you for being the stereotypical, ignorant american: i know a total of 10 words in french. tops.

[StevieShotgun]

canadians are fence riding french pussys.


wow. I laugh knowing that everytime you go to step in to that kick ass rusted out shower of yours, you will look at that shower curtain and realize that you are pathetic poor white trash.

Later man.

[buysoap]

That's my mother fucking birthday!

[StevieShotgun]

uhhh... buddy? i was obviously pointing out the lack of apostrophe in your original post. also, thank you for being the stereotypical, ignorant american: i know a total of 10 words in french. tops.

Do you guys use capital letters up there in the great white north?



See how stupid it is to be spelling/grammar police on message boards? Its so pointless.

[aircourtneys]

SOOOOOOO EXCIted!!!!!!!!!

[SuperJoe]

I'm in college myself. And maybe if you were at work right now instead of typing on some message board you could make enough to afford a nice apartment while going to college like I do.

www.monster.com (http://www.monster.com)


Keep picking apart my spelling and grammar...it just shows you cant win the argument on merit. And im certainly not going to waste my time stopping to spell check.

Seeing as how I have officially "bitch slapped" you in 3 consecutive posts with your best comeback being "you dont spell good!" im gonna move on.

Enjoy the new Harry Potter book and the High School Musical DVD you keep renting.

oh no! you bitch slapped me! ohhh it tickles! and considering i'm going to finish up 2 master's degrees by the time i reach 27, i really have to question what the hell you were doing with the first 31 years of your life. oh that's right, you're on the right track. you job search on monster. haha, tell me how that works out for you. you're set for life buddy. okay, but now seriously, you obviously are getting off on bitch slapping me, so alas, i will concede defeat, as i need to shower and meet up with my coworkers to sing the blues of how i was owned on a message board.

consider this my white flag.... :efu:

have a good one, dick.

[StevieShotgun]

That's my mother fucking birthday!

and two days after my birthday...happy birthday!!!

[StevieShotgun]

oh no! you bitch slapped me! ohhh it tickles! and considering i'm going to finish up 2 master's degrees by the time i reach 27 (yes I know I should not still be in college 10 years after i graduated high school), i really have no question what the hell you were doing with the first 31 years of your life. you're set for life buddy. okay, but now seriously, i will concede defeat...

consider this my white flag....

have a good one.

For the last time, Im not 31. How many times do I have to explain this to you.

Nice. I win again.

[flip]

Apparently i think its harry (and JK rowling)'s birthday on the book release date.. but 7.7.7 would of been cool.

haha...my birthday too.

i personally am undecided if it's sad that I'm turning 22 on that day and am still excited about the book coming out.

whatever, fuck it...they're fun books.

[StevieShotgun]

haha...my birthday too.

i personally am undecided if it's sad that I'm turning 22 on that day and am still excited about the book coming out.

whatever, fuck it...they're fun books.

A lot of people are born in July...why is that I wonder?

I wonder if there are statistics out on what month the most people are born in.

I'm on it...

[StevieShotgun]

And an answer...

"August has the number one ranking in average number of births. About 21 million Americans, or nine percent of the population, have birthdays in August. July and September follow closely behind, with 8.8 percent of birthdays, and February is last, with 7 percent."

[flip]

also...the fight between superjoe and stevieshotgun measuring the size of their e-dicks is great

[flip]

And an answer...

"August has the number one ranking in average number of births. About 21 million Americans, or nine percent of the population, have birthdays in August. July and September follow closely behind, with 8.8 percent of birthdays, and February is last, with 7 percent."

does it give any possible reasons? why are people having so much sex in october / november?

[StevieShotgun]

does it give any possible reasons? why are people having so much sex in october / november?

it did not. but Im doing some more looking around. Maybe because it is starting to get cold in most of the country, so people are inside more? hell, I dont know.

Let me know if you find out.

And thanks on the e-dick contest. I enjoy a good debate...it gets the blood pumping. haha

[just_peachy]

And an answer...

"August has the number one ranking in average number of births. About 21 million Americans, or nine percent of the population, have birthdays in August. July and September follow closely behind, with 8.8 percent of birthdays, and February is last, with 7 percent."
february is probablly the last because is 2-3 days shorter (1-2 in leap years) than all the others

[flip]

it did not. but Im doing some more looking around. Maybe because it is starting to get cold in most of the country, so people are inside more? hell, I dont know.

Let me know if you find out.

And thanks on the e-dick contest. I enjoy a good debate...it gets the blood pumping. haha

lol...ya it was a fun read.

another possible reason: holidays? september and august are both really high... so maybe thanksgiving / christmas. who knows i guess.

[lalalalovely]

And an answer...

"August has the number one ranking in average number of births. About 21 million Americans, or nine percent of the population, have birthdays in August. July and September follow closely behind, with 8.8 percent of birthdays, and February is last, with 7 percent."

haha, my birthday is in august.

i'm really interested to see how she ends the series.

[StevieShotgun]

lol...ya it was a fun read.

another possible reason: holidays? september and august are both really high... so maybe thanksgiving / christmas. who knows i guess.

interestingly, august is also the month that the LEAST people die.

According to one source:

"Demographers and sociologists long have puzzled over the mysteries of America's birth seasons: Why do births peak in the fall almost every year, and then dip in January and again in April? Why do other parts of the world have their own repetitive patterns, in some cases practically the opposite of America's? And why do birth seasons occasionally change over time?
"There is no consensus that I'm aware of as far as a factor, or the factors, that contribute to this," said Brady Hamilton, a statistician and demographer for the reproductive statistics branch of the National Center for Health Statistics. "It seems to be a myriad of different hypotheses."

as for the deaths:

"Officials are far more settled on why deaths tend to dip at this time of year and surge again in the winter months. On a day-by-day basis, August has the fewest deaths, while January has the most. (Click above for a table of month-by-month deaths.)
"This is consistent with what we know about the effects of winter and the flu season on those that are sick and frail," said Robert N. Anderson, chief of the NCHS's mortality statistics branch."

[music3chick]

great
i wonder how many pages it's going to be

[beyondthelonely]

I am really excited for this.


Also, for anyone who can't seem to get over how strange it is that people college age and up are ready to wet themselves about this, you might want to consider the fact that the first HP came out in 1998. I was only 13 then so I really don't find any shame in the fact that I'm jumping up and down excited for this at 21. Although, having read them, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit how much I like them no matter how old I was.

[Ms Smurf]

I liked these books...when I was eleven.
I think the movies put me off.
The Harry Potter kid, however, suddenly got hot so maybe I'll start watching them again.
Funny you should mention being in the closet and liking Harry Potter.
Because I always though there was something wiffy about Draco Malfoy. He set my gaydar off bigtime. Coincidence?

[thesynapse]

yesss. thats my birthday!!!

[Jenn23]

this would probably be interesting news if there was anyone in 5th grade or lower that read this site.

I'm going to pull the teacher card here and inform you that the books in the Harry Potter series range from an upper fifth grade level to a ninth grade level on the Lexile scale. They aren't "easy" books for young children to read and comprehend. Also, how many 800+ page books did you read when you were in elementary school?

I really don't see why adults reading children's books is such a strange concept for some. Children's Lit was one of my favorite courses in college. I have a huge collection of children's books (from picture books to novels). I am (still) a big fan of Scholastic book orders.

Most people who claim to dislike these books have probably never actually taken the time to sit down and read any of them.

[silhouettetheme]

Seriously soooooo motherfuckingfhaeglghl excited, but equally sad at the same time. I wish JKR could have kept going...but alas, all students must graduate Hogwarts at 17 :[
July is going to be a FANTASTIC month: Deathly Hallows release, Order of the Phoenix release in theaters, Simpsons movie release, All Star Game @ AT&T Park (at least for me since I'm a Giants fan/SF resident).

[fATEwORKS2wAYS]

I'm guessing the reason they aren't releasing it on 7.7.07 is because its the second anniversary of the London Underground (subway) bombings.

You know, just to go completely off subject and all.

[Nightingale00]

I'm so excited!! I'll definetely be at Borders at midnight! haha

[silhouettetheme]

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/thesingingcherry/harrypottergay.jpg

[hornerlas]

fuck any albums, best release of 2007, apart from maybe circa :p

[DroppedUrPocket]

Snape kills Dumbledore.

[StevieShotgun]

I'm going to pull the teacher card here and inform you that the books in the Harry Potter series range from an upper fifth grade level to a ninth grade level on the Lexile scale.

ok, teach, then for all you 9th graders and below on this site...enjoy the book.

[pinklipgloss]

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f372/thesingingcherry/harrypottergay.jpg

That is soo creepy! Anyways excited and thank God it will be released this year!

[hailthewarrior]

dumbledore's dead because HE FELL OFF A TOWER. even if the curse didnt work. you cant fall off a tower and survive. and if im not mistaken, it was atleast over 100 feet up.

[stuntmaniac]

dumbledore's dead because HE FELL OFF A TOWER. even if the curse didnt work. you cant fall off a tower and survive. and if im not mistaken, it was atleast over 100 feet up.

lmao thts quite true

[cyndaroo]

dumbledore's dead because HE FELL OFF A TOWER. even if the curse didnt work. you cant fall off a tower and survive. and if im not mistaken, it was atleast over 100 feet up.
Are you really trying to think logically in regards to a book in which people have invisible cloaks and run around with magic wands?

[TAYF152]

ok, teach, then for all you 9th graders and below on this site...enjoy the book.

Dude you are a dick. If you are gonna come on a Harry Potter post and talk smack to everyone that enjoys it, you should probably expect to get an absolute ass-raping. Seriously get over the fact the books are good and well-written and go pity yourself for having absolutely no imagination or the fact that you will never get a girlfriend.