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Wow, the excitement is starting to build. I have mixed feelings about the final book coming out. On the one hand, I want to know how this all ends. On the other hand, this all ends. I'm still predicting Dumbledore comes back ala Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. He's a Phoenix animagus, I think.

I really want to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix over at the IMAX theater over at Colorado Blvd. and I-25. It's supposed to be in 3D. That would be so cool. It's going to be a while though, because a check of Fandango and the showtimes when I could go are all sold out. I hope it stays there awhile.

As promised, I'm beginning my countdown to the delivery of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to my doorstep on Saturday, July 21st (well, to my community mailbox anyway).

I'm dying to see if any of my predictions about the final book are valid. After the last fiasco of waiting for UPS when it was really coming USPS, I'm ready this year. Hopefully the mail will come early and I can read all day that Saturday. I really wish we had cooler release party events around here. I've been reading about some of the more spectacular ones and it makes the ones here locally seem really lame. Oh, well.

I guess I'm not going to get my Hogwart's scarf done since I've yet to learn to knit, huh? Whoops! Well, maybe by the time the movie comes out for book 7? Yeah, that's the ticket!

Six weeks! Wow, I was thinking this time was never going to come. I've been staying away from all things HP lately because it makes waiting harder, but today I gave in and went to Mugglenet. I picked myself up that neat little countdown for the top of the page there. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is coming out in a little over a month. w00t! I have a 101 in 1001 site that I haven't publicized much because I wanted to design it first, but one of my goals was to knit a Gryffindor scarf before the book arrives. Well........since I haven't learned to knit yet, not sure I'll make that goal. I think it's only a knit stitch. Maybe I can do it. I've got all the supplies.

Another cool bit of HP news that I forgot to mention recently is the theme park they're going to build in Orlando. I am so going to go see this place. I've always wanted to go to Florida.

Poor Harry Potter didn't adjust well to life after Hogwarts (according to the comedy troop The Monkey Box. WARNING: The following video has adult themes.

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You know you're getting close to the book release when a big announcement is made revealing the cover art. For J.K. Rowling's final book seven of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, that announcement came this past Wednesday on The Today Show. [via Shalla]

I found a link with a large version of the entire cover art and immediately made it into my computer's desktop image. I'd post a pic of it, but there are a ton of files on my desktop, obscuring the image. Maybe once I get those files put away or thrown out.