Approximately thirteen hours to "The Deathly Hallows".

At eight a.m. tomorrow morning I will be queueing up to get my copy of the final Potter book. I can't wait! Rowling said she would kill some of the main characters; the one whose eventual destiny I'm interested in is our (un-?)beloved (ex-?)professor Severus Snape. He either gets to clear his reputation or gets killed in the final battle between Harry and Voldemort while protecting Harry. That's my guess. Now I need to spend that thirteen hours before I get to queue (yeeha...). Too bad it's summer, I would have wanted to wear my Slytherin scarf (I knitted it myself, fact forbid!). Well, I guess I'll have to settle with my silver snake ring, then. That won't stir up as many emotions amongst the red-and-yellow dressed enthusiasts but I can't exactly wear a woolen cloth around my neck in about twenty degree sunshine in the middle of July without attracting much more attention than I'm comfortable with.

Anyway, tomorrow (or the day after), when I have managed to emerge from the Potter world to the reality (or something closely resembling one at least) I'll probably want to express my initial thoughts of the last book here so in case you're not planning to read the book in anywhere near future... well, ye be warned.

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Here's a lot of Potter (did you really expect anything else?) stuff I found while trying to spend that thirteen hours away.

The classic aka. the "Which Harry Potter character are you?" quiz (http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=hpcharacter) – I appear to have most in common with, as I suspected, Severus Snape.

Here's another one (http://www.matthewbarr.co.uk/harrypotter/) – Snape again.

Okay, now we know the main character resemblance. How about the minor characters (http://atypically.net/hp/lesser.shtml)? – The centaur Firenze; " You're so different from most humans that you're an entirely different species. Still, your beliefs are unusual even for beings of your sort - although concerned with the future and the stars, you're willing to defy standard practices for the common good."

What about the Houses (http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=sortinghat)? - for some utterly incomprehensible reason I got sorted into Gryffindor. Come on!

At Mugglenet (http://www.mugglenet.com/games/puzzles.shtml) you'll find jigsaw puzzles, hangman and word searches. Have fun (even though the puzzles have no options of Snape)!