Harry Potter and the Spoilers of Doom

In the past, it’s taken me a month or so after the release of a new Harry Potter book to actually get ahold of a copy and get it read. I wonder how long I can possibly go without hearing any details about this one?

Trivia about me: I once worked as a buyer at an independent bookstore, and Scholastic was one of the publishers I worked with. The very last catalog I bought from them before leaving the store included a little book called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which the publisher’s rep assured me was going to be the next big thing. I didn’t believe her, because she said this for every single lead title in the two years I worked with her. Oops. To this day, I still don’t know if I bought enough inital copies for the store because I left before they actually went on sale.

But the rep did give me an ARC of the book, which I still have. It’s probably worth more than any other book in my collection.