Harry plus 6 kids

Chief and I are at Seattle’s Best Café at Rockwell. As early as 7am, people and fans had lined up at the “Fully Booked” to get their first copies of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.”

Even on the “Today” Show, they showed footage of people staying in line… rather sleeping in line to be among the first to read the 7th book by J.K. Rowling. This is the last book from Rowling.

She completed the book while staying at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh in January 2007. On a marble bust of Hermes in her room, she left a signed statement that reads "JK Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11 January 2007".

Rowling also says that the final volume relates very closely to the previous book in the series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, so much so that the two books are "almost as though they are two halves of the same novel.

Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders are reporting that more orders have been placed for this book than for any other in history. Publisher announced initial print run of 12 million copies.

Outside, two ladies are probably around Chapter 10 plus already. They probably have been around as early as past 7am, wanting to be the among the first Filipinos to finish the book. Even Chief has joined that race. Me, I would rather catch up on my blogs. Not really a Potter book fan. Would rather read some tech book, which reminds me that I have to finish the “Google Story.

Also in the news, sextuplets were born last June 11 and made their presence felt in today’s issue of Phil. Daily Inquirer. The sextuplets named Savannah, Bailey, Grant, Cole, Molli and Blake, were born 7 weeks premature at Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

Years from now, these 3 girls and 3 boys, will probably be watching reruns of all Harry Potter movies on HBO.

And for the next few days... or maybe, through the weekend, Chief will read through 759 pages, 36 chapters and a long epilogue.