Harry Potter mania in Austin

Because I'm not completely clueless, I knew that the latest Harry Potter release was 7/21 at 12:01am. While in the local Wal Mart today a guy was handing out the colored wrist bands to the book sell. Not many people were asking about it and he kept saying "these are the red ones; they go to the front of the line." Since my neice likes HP so much and I will see her later this morning I thought, "well . . . if I'm up I'll come by" so I took one. Since I am up, I trotted down to the store with my red wrist band and picked up 2 HP books. I really wasn't expecting a crowd, since it is the Wal Mart in my neighborhood and, well . . . I just didn't expect the HP-reading crowd to be there. Boy, was I wrong. The line was already out the customer service area, through the shoes, past the baby clothes and to the food side of the store. Luckily, I had my red band and went to the head of the pack. I got my 2 copies and was home about 40 min. later. Since a friend's son was also standing in line somewhere, I called to make sure he was going to get a copy. Brian, apparently, had no problem as he said that he pretty much just walked into the HEB (at Mopac and Parmer) and bought one! So, now I guess we'll find out if Harry lives or dies . . . But, unluck the rest of the HP fans of the world, I am going to bed rather than stay up reading tonight. Good night all . . .