Everybody in the world has already read more than Rebecca!

[rebecca_in_blue]

At my cash register today, four different customers mentioned The Half-Blood Prince to me. One girl asked if I had been at the midnight party last Friday. When I confirmed and said that I had only read the first two chapters (I didn't read the third until after work today), she asked, "Do you think Snape is lying in Chapter 2?" I replied that altough I had never liked or respected Snape, I also never suspected he was really in league with Voldemort, though it was rather chilling when he claimed to have been responsible for the murder of Emmaline Vance. He has fooled either Albus or Voldemort into trusting him, and whichever one it is, he has fooled him very, very well. I had just said this when the girl next in line argued, "But Dumbledore would never trust Snape is he thought there was any reason not to!"

The third customer was a girl who was carrying the book under her arm. I asked her how far she was, and she said about two-thirds of the way through. "Do you want to know what happens?" she asked when I told her I had only read two chapters. I almost ran away, but she laughed, "No, no, I would never do that."

The fourth was a very strange-looking old man wearing a straw hat and earrings the size of quarters. He asked what my red-and-blue silicone bracelet meant and I told him it was for epilepsy. He said, "Do you know they have green ones for Harry Potter?" I was surprised and said that I hadn't seen any at the midnight party last Friday, and he told me that he had read the entire book over the weekend. It was a little weird.