I was at a weeklong Guide camp that started 2 days before it came out, some girls came to camp 2 days late just so they could get their copy of the book at midnight. That entire week there were pockets of girls everywhere in the camp sitting around someone with the book who was reading aloud. Some people listened not caring what part they were at, others absolutely refused to hear anything about it that might spoil something.

When I got home my own copy was sitting on my bed and I spent the day marathoning through it - I couldn’t put it down, everything was terrible, Hedwig! Lupin! Etc! It was 3am when I got to a happy part where Ron comes back and I could finally go to sleep for a few hours.