Karen: Do you want to get dressed up when we pick up the new Harry Potter book on Saturday morning? Would you like to be a wizard?

Keira (wrinkling her nose): I don’t like wizards. I want to be a fairy.

Karen (secretly dismayed, but putting on a brave face): How about you dress up as a fairy-wizard?

Keira: I DON’T LIKE WIZARDS.

Karen: Oh. *pouts*

Keira: How about you and dad dress up as wizards, I can be a fairy and Riley can be a teletubby?

Looks like that’ll have to do.

Anyone else going to be camping out to get their copy? Ours is reserved at a cafe/bookshop, so we might go have a coffee while we wait. Our ‘opening time’ for the book is a very sensible 9.01am. I don’t think I’m that keen to wait to midnight, if I had to!

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Karen Andrews is the creator of this website, one of the most established and well-respected parenting blogs in the country. She is also an author, award-winning writer, poet, editor and publisher at Miscellaneous Press. Her latest book is Trust the Process: 101 Tips on Writing and Creativity