We All Got Pottered!

As I look at these pictures, none of them does justice to the party we had last evening. If anyone has pictures, particularly of our outstanding volunteer face painters, I'd love to share them with the rest of our patrons and make a permanent online record of the night.

Here are pics from the night. On a muggy and muggle-y night, everything was cool at Destinations Booksellers. We sold all of our copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and by now I expect a few patrons can tell you how the 600-plus-page book ends.

Everyone seemed to have a great time...all told, I'd guess 200 people dropped in during the night, with perhaps as many as 80 in the store at any given moment. Anne Miller, our potions mistress, kept the festivities going, and our face painters, captained by ball-of-fire Shelby Lewis, added immeasurably to the evening. Thanks must also go out to Terry Kendall, Greg and Glenda Mills, and countless others for making this a tremendous party.

And now your slide show:


Hogwarts house colors rule. That's Ann "Missionary for Imagination" Miller holding a previous Potter volume.


Ann took a rare night "off" from her job and finished the evening exhausted but happy.



Readings from the last chapter of the last book kept a crowd enthralled.


Only wizards and witches were able to see the "Muggle" designation on my forehead. The "snitch," you'll notice, bears my own Tennessee Vols colors.


The potions mistress takes a break, accompanied by a couple of messenger owls and a slithery friend.



Even early in the evening there were dozens wrapped up in the stories.


That's Half-Blood Punch bubbling in the background.


These stalwarts stayed for the whole night!


See the fabric stretched over the history and politics section? That was our little chamber of secrets. Those boxes of Harry Potter books were decoys.