Harry Potter and the Morning After
Well, the last Harry Potter book is officially out there now.
Last night's release at Barnes & Noble at Friendly Center, Greensboro went off without a hitch.
Business reporter Michelle Jarboe live blogged the event -- and I mean live blogged. I held her coffee while she typed on the paper's laptop while in line and while buying her book.
Michelle's generally a little afraid to let her geek flag fly, but last night she was in rare form. She made Bertie Botts' Every Flavored Beans references, she even bought an extra book for a friend of mine who was pre-registered, but standing out in the parking lot waiting for her number to be called.
She also snagged this picture of Business editor John Nagy getting into the wizarding spirit:
I very nearly wore my Gryffindor scarf myself (yes, I have one, knitted for me by the biggest Potter geek I know) -- but in my rush to get from work to the store I forgot it at home.
A number of my friends, old acquaintances and co-workers were there, some people who just remembered me from the newspaper at UNCG and some local bloggers I rarely see in person. But my favorite part of the night had to be watching Michelle, who has read every Potter book (and some of them more than once) but who is still inexplicably a little ashamed of liking them grinning from ear to ear, giggling and loving every minute of something this unabashedly geeky.
Like comic book conventions and the release of a new Star Wars movie...you just have to let yourself go at something like this, let the geek take over.