Firstly, happy birthday (just) to Jo Rowling and Harry Potter and thank you for changing my life for the better.
So last night was the midnight launch of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and as you know I was supposed to be going to a launch party in London.
Unfortunately, due to the Ride London-Surrey cycle race closing off all the streets in a ten mile vicinity of the bookshop we couldn't find anywhere to park that would allow us to get there before midnight or wouldn't cost £40 for a couple of hours parking (we spent over an hour trying every road in the area for parking only to discover it was all suspended because of the race, and none of the tube stations are anywhere near the bookshop - a particular problem for someone with mobility issues).
Instead of celebrating with other fans and getting and reading the new script overnight (I decided to read it as I'm not actually seeing the play until December and don't think there's any way I can stay unspoiled until then) I was in a car with my best friend navigating the traffic jams that the road closures had caused throughout London and getting more and more grumpy about not being at the launch.
This left me feeling depressed and disappointed rather than elated and excited as I had expected to feel and this bad feeling has carried over to today leaving me feeling flat and strangely exhausted.
It was particularly galling because long after we got our tickets for the London event (on Friday afternoon to be precise) our local bookshop suddenly announced it was doing a midnight launch (although without any of the fun stuff Piccadilly was doing). We could have gone there quite easily and had some of the feels that attending the London launch would have had, even though it would have meant paying again for the book, but we wanted to do the fun things too, so ended up doing nothing :(
Anyway, enough of my whinging, time for the next chapter of Hermione and Percy's great love story - what has happened between them since their illicit night of passion? Please note this chapter has lemons.
I really hope you're enjoying the story so far. If you are I would be extremely grateful for a short review or a comment on here to let me know.
Until next week, by which time I may have read the Cursed Child (hopefully). I'm waiting to see if we can still get our copies from Piccadilly despite not attending the launch. We did pay for them, after all.
Have a good week, and enjoy whatever you're reading (hopefully my story is among them).
Dx
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