Last month, we told you of a contest that Amazon.com was holding, where you could win a trip for two to London, England, and read the special handwritten copy of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" by J.K. Rowling. The contest required written entries, and fans can now read and vote on the 20 semi-finalists for this contest. You can read entries from 13-17 age group, here, and read the selections from the 18- and over group via this link.
Voting is for this round is open now until May 11th. On May 13 Amazon will reveal the final two contestants, where voting will run again for one week until the winner is announced on May 22. As a reminder, the “Beedle the Bard” tales were mentioned Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with Amazon the winner of the charity auction of one of the seven hand written Beedle books by J.K. Rowling. Until now, only photos of the book and short summaries have been revealed. You can see photos and read the summaries here via Amazon.
Hi Laura … I went back to read your entry, it was the one my family and I voted for! I was worried that your poem might’ve been one of the ones I didn’t like, and then wouldn’t know what to say … but it was my favourite, so that works out nicely.
Rachael, it must suck to not have any HP-obsessed friends. I consider myself very lucky to have a group of friends with identical interests to me – and some days, we talk about Harry Potter constantly. Especially during the lead up to book and movie releases.
When Deathly Hallows came out, one of my friends and I sat outside the bookstore overnight to be first in line for the release at 9:01am. I think we were there for nearly twelve hours, and it was freezing cold … lucky the bookstore owners remembered us from when we waited for Half-Blood Prince and let us in early.
Turns out our camping out was rather pointless in the end, because the town I live in is relatively small and people didn’t really start turning up until about 6:00am.
I guess the point is, if I were to somehow win this competition, I would so want to bring my friends with me, or at least someone who would truly appreciate the chance to read the Beedle the Bard. Unlike my mother.
Thanks, Rhiannon—I’m glad you liked it! I really thought your poem was beautiful.
I’ve had the same experiences waiting in line for the books! My sister and I went at 8 in the morning for the midnight Deathly Hallows release. It was really fun spending all day in the bookstore with hundreds of other fans!
It’s too bad you wouldn’t be able to bring someone along who would really appreciate it! I have so many friends and family members who are huge HP fans, my trouble would be deciding which one to bring! :-)
I’d have trouble picking who to bring. Because although my friends like it, I’d probably take my Mum. And she would enjoy it, but she’s only read one of them. She likes the films and so doesn’t really know what Beedle the Bard is.
I would want to take someone who would really appreciate it and the trouble is, the only people who would really appreciate are people of the fandom and I don’t know anyone who loves it like everybody of Leaky and all the other fan sites.
So I’d end up taking my Mum.
PS. Rhiannon – you’re right. It does suck not having obsessed Potter fans.
One guy I know does really love them but goes to a totally different school and I hardly ever see him. Like maybe once a year. But we were thinking of starting a HP book club – though we’d be the only ones.
My dad point blank refused to take me to get Deathly Hallows before it came out at Midnight, but luckily the shop is only 2 minutes up the road and so I spent the evening counting down on my “Harry Potter Count Down Clock”, listening to Wizard Rock and making my bedroom “Harry Potter friendly” to prepare for reading it. =D
Hi Laura … I went back to read your entry, it was the one my family and I voted for! I was worried that your poem might’ve been one of the ones I didn’t like, and then wouldn’t know what to say … but it was my favourite, so that works out nicely.
Rachael, it must suck to not have any HP-obsessed friends. I consider myself very lucky to have a group of friends with identical interests to me – and some days, we talk about Harry Potter constantly. Especially during the lead up to book and movie releases.
When Deathly Hallows came out, one of my friends and I sat outside the bookstore overnight to be first in line for the release at 9:01am. I think we were there for nearly twelve hours, and it was freezing cold … lucky the bookstore owners remembered us from when we waited for Half-Blood Prince and let us in early.
Turns out our camping out was rather pointless in the end, because the town I live in is relatively small and people didn’t really start turning up until about 6:00am.
I guess the point is, if I were to somehow win this competition, I would so want to bring my friends with me, or at least someone who would truly appreciate the chance to read the Beedle the Bard. Unlike my mother.
Who would you bring with you?