Disappointed

The PotterCasters are going to be in Chicago for the Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows release and I'll be in London. They'll be closer to home than I will be! Not that I'm sad about being in the UK, it's just that I really wanted to go to a LIVE PotterCast as part of my ultimate HP experience - you know - do it ALL!

My biggest disappointment about the whole release thing is that it would have been nice if the 'powers that be' (i.e. JKR, PotterCast, etc) had announced their plans earlier. (I know, I know, they probably didn't know until recently either, but I so wanted to see everyone.) It takes a lot of time to plan a trip - I had to get OK for vacation way back in February - and knowing that this was the final book and how big a deal it is for fans, they should have realized that many fans would be making special plans for it and that many of us would want to know where our favorite people would be so we could celebrate with them. Had I known earlier that there would be absolutely no opportunity for me to see JKR in the UK and that PotterCast would be a mere 8 hours from my home, I may have forgone the expensive trip to Europe and saved it for next summer (and saved more money for the trip and gone when airplane tickets were much cheaper than the middle of July). I'm not blaming or begrudging anyone - I made the decision to go and am still VERY excited because it's going to be an awesome experience - but it would have been nice to have had the time to plan things in advance by where the people I wanted to be with would be.

That's all. I'm just kind of a sad panda right now. I'm sure I'll get over it and have a FABULOUS trip :)