{"id":1391946,"date":"2016-07-27T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1391946"},"modified":"2016-07-28T11:52:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T15:52:18","slug":"the-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-book-release-is-happening-this-weekend-and-barnes-noble-is-making-a-day-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-book-release-is-happening-this-weekend-and-barnes-noble-is-making-a-day-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The <em>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child<\/em> Book Release Is Happening This Weekend, and Barnes &#038; Noble Is Making a Day Of It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/cursedchildplayishappeningjuly28_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re just days away from the release of \u00a0<i>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child<\/i>, and I am so excited I want to fling my entire self into the sun. <em>How many days,<\/em> \u00a0I hear you ask? Allow me to plonk a giant countdown clock below, that we may all keep track of the seconds until our souls are once again sucked from our bodies by the imagination\/marketing juggernaut that is JK Rowling.<\/p>\n<p><code><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\ndocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() {\nfunction getTimeRemaining(endtime) {\nvar t = Date.parse(endtime) - Date.parse(new Date());\n  var seconds = Math.floor((t \/ 1000) % 60);\n  var minutes = Math.floor((t \/ 1000 \/ 60) % 60);\n  var hours = Math.floor((t \/ (1000 * 60 * 60)) % 24);\n  var days = Math.floor(t \/ (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));\n  return {\n    'total': t,\n    'days': days,\n    'hours': hours,\n    'minutes': minutes,\n    'seconds': seconds\n  };\n}\nfunction updateClock(id,endtime){\nvar clock = document.getElementById(id);\n  var daysSpan = clock.querySelector('.days');\n  var hoursSpan = clock.querySelector('.hours');\n  var minutesSpan = clock.querySelector('.minutes');\n  var secondsSpan = clock.querySelector('.seconds');\n    var t = getTimeRemaining(endtime);\n    daysSpan.innerHTML = t.days;\n    hoursSpan.innerHTML = ('0' + t.hours).slice(-2);\n    minutesSpan.innerHTML = ('0' + t.minutes).slice(-2);\n    secondsSpan.innerHTML = ('0' + t.seconds).slice(-2);\n    if (t.total <= 0) {\n      clockdiv.innerHTML = 'Sentinel';\n    }\n}\nfunction initializeClock(id, endtime) {\n  var clock = document.getElementById(id);\n  var daysSpan = clock.querySelector('.days');\n  var hoursSpan = clock.querySelector('.hours');\n  var minutesSpan = clock.querySelector('.minutes');\n  var secondsSpan = clock.querySelector('.seconds');\n  updateClock(id,endtime);\t\n  var timeinterval = setInterval(updateClock, 1000, id, endtime);\n} \nvar deadline = 'July 31 2016 8:00:00 GMT-0400';\ninitializeClock('clockdiv', deadline);\n});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">body { overflow-x: hidden;} \/* expand BNReads pod on the One Column Marketing page *\/ .main-content .triple .bnreads-pod { max-width: 29%; 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II. Pre-order now.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;ve heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/02\/10\/breaking-harry-potter-the-cursed-child-is-being-published-in-book-form\">this whole thing<\/a>. Maybe you haven&#8217;t. Maybe you&#8217;re recovering from a fugue state or returning from exile, in which case hey! Welcome back! Everything&#8217;s pretty much the same, except Pokemon is cool again, everyone&#8217;s eating kale, and there&#8217;s a new Harry Potter book coming out to restore \u00a0in us a long-dormant nostalgia that we have heretofore only experienced at the midnight releases of yore.<\/p>\n<p>Remember those days? Because I sure do. I won a trivia contest when I was eleven at the midnight release for <i>Order of the Phoenix<\/i>, and I&#8217;ve been bringing it up on first dates and during job interviews ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I&#8217;m a regular person. I had plans for Saturday night. Plans that involved eating far too many popsicles and then languishing in front of an industrial two-speed fan because I don&#8217;t have central air and there is never a moment where I am not sweaty. These are plans that I had locked in many moons ago. But do you know where \u00a0I&#8217;m going to be instead?<\/p>\n<p>Kicking down the double doors of my nearest air-conditioned Barnes &amp; Noble is where.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s entirely possible that they&#8217;ll just let me in.<\/p>\n<p>I know there are some of you out there who don&#8217;t care for <em>Cursed Child <\/em>and its \u00a0departure from the original canon. That&#8217;s perfectly okay! We as a people do not agree on everything, nor should we. Example: I have a friend who to this day pronounces \u201cSirius\u201d as \u201cSye-REE-us,\u201d and she has the same rights to life as you and I.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note: I have not read any spoilers. This is quite frankly unprecedented, because I am obsessed with spoilers. Not openly, mind you. I complain \u00a0about how they \u201ccheapen the experience,\u201d but if there is a brand-new thing that everybody is talking about, just know that I have already swallowed my scruples and Googled everything about it. But not now. This is too important. I want my mind to be blown.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my point: at the end of the day, whatever your level of interest\u2014whether you&#8217;re not into it at all, or you&#8217;re actually so into it that you&#8217;ve spoiled yourself silly\u2014<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/h\/harry-potter-events\">Barnes &amp; Noble is hosting \u00a0an assembly of the wizarding faithful, one that harkens back to the Good Old Days.<\/a><\/strong> There will be contests. Giveaways. Possibly a Firenze cosplay, but probably not. Trivia! You could win a trivia competition, and then proceed to brag about it for the next thirteen years!<\/p>\n<p>Basically, be there. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/h\/harry-potter-events\">The party starts at 8 PM on Saturday the 30th and goes until midnight, at Barnes &amp; Nobles near and far.<\/a><\/strong> There is like a 1\/900 chance you will see me. A slim chance, it&#8217;s true, but <i>a chance nonetheless.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re just days away from the release of \u00a0Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and I am so excited I want to fling my entire self into the sun. 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