Well, just how long did it take you?

Did you get it at 12.01pm and read through the night, or did you take a more steady pace?

Did you eat? Did you sleep?

Personally, I took about 12 hours. I did get the book just after midnight, I started reading at about 12.45pm, but gave into sleep for about four hours. I have a family, so although I started reading again at 5.30am ish, I had to keep taking breaks to be mum. In the end I finished up at about 10pm.

What about you??

I got the book at about 9:15am. Read a few lines then had to put it down. I didn't get a chance to read it til about 10pm that night, then I read for about 5 hours, fell asleep for roughly 4 hours then read from about 6:30am til 5:30pm. So what's that......about 16 hours? Yeah. I took my time though and savoured it. I didn't want to rush it. Plus I had to take time out to eat, drink and whatnot, and to calm myself after a particularly sad part. I mighthave taken a long time but at least I didn't miss anything.

I rushed it. I don't think I suffered because of it because it all sank in, however I do want to reread through it and go through some things and digest it.

I got the book about 10:30am, when my friend dropped it out to the campsite that I was at for me. I read through the first chapter at Morning Tea and then had to put it away and go to a rehearsal. I read the next 4 chapters in little snippets every break I got and then I didn't get to read any more until 11pm that night. I finished just after 3am.

So all up, it took me about 5 hours.

I was exhausted yesterday as I had to be up at 6:30am for a training. Well worth it though

7 hours. I got the book at 8pm borrowed from my sister's friend. I ended at about 1am and continued from 10am next morning to 2pm.

just under 6 hours...got it at about 11, read for half an hour, played tennis until 3, then finished it before i went out to dinner at 8

Okay, o got it around 10am and red all day long, but my mom forced me to eat with them and not just lock myself into my room. I’m not good at English, so I took about 24 hours to read it. But I slept in the night because I had to go to work in the morning at 5, but got home and finished the last three chapters at 10am: 24 hours. I’m impressed with everyone who could take lass than 12 hours I’d have missed all the details.

i'm the first to admit im not a very fast reader. all in all it took me 19 hours. i would have loved to read it more quickly but then i was like "Jeezo Shennan, you've waited years for this, whats another few hours to you?"

plus, i wouldnt want to skim over the surface and deny myself the chance to revel in the little details i enjoy so much

haha yea Im not a very fast reader either.
All in all I think it took me about 16 hours to read it. Despite going to the midnight opening, I didnt actually get my copy until 2o'clock that afternoon (for £5!)
Then I read nonstop (except for breaks to stack up on tissues for my poor eyes) for about 5 hours, took break for dinner and read about another 6 hours until going to bed. Then I started again at 11 and had it finished by 4.

i miss it , im going to reread later

Personally I was woken up at 8am on saturday by the post man delivering it, then read it till 12 30 when i had to go to cricket... Got home bout 8 when i read it solidly through to 3am! So thats 11 and a half hours roughly

I went to the Midnight Release Party.. waited in line for a bit, and got my book at 12:38am. I then dropped two friends off at their houses, went home, got water and a snack and sat down to read by 1:15am (about). I read all night long with only a few bathroom breaks. Halfway through I relocated to my bedroom because I didn't want anyone else to see me crying (I started to cry over Dobby). I finished at exactly 11:14am. So it took me roughly ten hours to read. I commend anyone who can read it faster, but sometimes its apparent from those who read it quick, but really shouldnt, that it had affected them negatively (forgot/missed scenes).

So a bit under ten hours, I'd say. Not too short, not too long, and I remember most of what I read, making it easy for discussion.

Seven hours. Got it at 7:00, started reading at 7:30, finished around 2:15 or so.

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My friend an I read a chapter to eachother in relay, took us about 15 hours.
Started at midday on Saturday and finished around 3pm on Sunday, with some sleep and food inbetween.

I'm not the fastest of readers, but I managed to read it in 12 hours.

I got it home at 10:30 am on Saturday and I started reading it and I finished at quarter past midnight. I did take breaks though, to eat lunch and dinner, and to use the bathroom and to take a shower. So when you take out the time it took me to do those things it was about 12 hours. I also had to reread some parts that I couldn't believe had happened, to make sure that I had actually read it!

I did rush it though, and I am in the process of rereading it. I don't regret rushing it though, I found out the ending quickly enough.

I got mine around eight and read all day. I bought my own copy so I wouldn't have to share so I dragged it all over the house. I got grease all over it too after eating a hot dog and fries lol. I finished it around seven forty-four and I did have to go to church for a while.
So it took me almost twelve hours including church breaks. I've already started re-reading it to my little brother though.

Haha hmmm lets see....

Was in line at walmart at 11:45 to get the book roughly around 12:20 am :] whent to in and out buger for a delitefull snack/dinner.

Got home around 1 and began reading till around 5:30.

The next day I woke up around 1pm and read till around 4:30 when I had to get ready for work. After work and a bit of fun time with my bf I went home to begin reading again from about 11 to 4am the next morning.

Makeing it today, well yesterday I suppose since its now nearly 6 monday morning, I spent the day swimming and relaxing with my boyfriend not to pick up the book till around 12 finishing it exactly at 4:40am.

Now if I'm correct in my math, that's about 17 hours and 40 minutes? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

However, we can't forget to include the numerouse times I'm sure we all put the book aside because of an overwhelming amount of tears and a fear to read on and find out what other horrible things would happen to the characters we have come to love :[

I read from 2am-4am. Slept til my rugrats woke me up at 7:45am. Got them un-jammied and eating breakfast, read from 8am-12pm, stopped to get lunch. Read from 1pm-5:30pm, stopped. Made and ate dinner. Read from 7pm-8:30pm. Was then finished with the book, so that is 12 hours. Not too shabby! I'd have loved to have sat and done nothing but read it straight for 12 hours, but Mommydom waits for no man-not even HP...lol.

Got the book at 10 minutes past midnight got home around 12:40 in the morning. Read the first 500 pages till 1:00 p.m. then went to bed. Woke up and starting reading from 2:00 a.m. till 5:30 a.m. so I guess it took me around 15 and a half hours.

I got it at about one o'clock and read about 45 minutes before I went to bed. When I woke up at 6:30 I began to read again. Like a few others have posted, I too am a mom and wife so i kept getting interrupted, but I did finish the book within a 24 hr period. I finished at about 10 pm.

I got it around 12:30 or something like that. As i waited in the big cue outside my WHSMITH. I wanted to end the series going at midnight because it was so magical with the Harry Potter music and that.

I read untill something like 2:30 inm themorning and then read all day after that. I finished about 10:30 Saturday night.

So i read it in about 15 hours. Or 14 hours. Quite and achievement for me i think. I was very tired after though.

I started reading at roughly 10:30 AM, finished it at exactly 12:30 PM. I stopped for dinner, and to feed the dogs, which was roughly a timespace of 45 minutes. Then I stopped again for about 15 minues at 10:15 PM, then continued from 10:30 PM until 12:30 PM when I finished it. So if I'd been able to read it non-stop it would have taken me approximately ... 13 hours! Wow.

I think it took me about ten hours - I started reading at about 1 pm Saturday.
I couldn't buy it at Friday midnight because I'm a Sabbath observer, so I had to wait till the book came to me. But - I'm not allowed to rip open a box on the Sabbath either! And I can't ask someone to do it for me! I was so annoyed that the book would be sitting in my house for HOURS and I wouldn't be able to read it. But when the mailman came, he saw how excited I was for the book and he opened it for me without me even asking him! He must have realized my predicament! So I was the only one of my friends who was able to start reading it on the Sabbath, so I was the first to finish. (Agony - I couldn't discuss it with anyone!)
To that mailman, wherever you are, if you are reading this - you rock!

I started at about 1:30 a.m. (after getting the book, getting home, cooking a late dinner with my husband and sitting down to it.) My husband fell asleep at 4 or so (he actually still hasn't finished it. slowpoke. but I kept reading till about 9 a.m. when i finally turned the last page. I didn't really put it down much during the night. but i did have to put it down when Snape died, because I was so upset....

Mmm... well, I got it from a bookstore at about 1 pm (after a babysitting job in which I was running after a 3-year-old and thinking to myself, "I wonder if Harry dies..." The wait was agonizingly painful). Anyway, so once I got it at around 1, I read straight through until I got home (around 2 o'clock), ate a speedy lunch (only cause my mom made me) and read until around 7:30 pm. Then, I wolfed down dinner (I know, my family eats late, really late) and then, after swearing to my family that I would read all night if I had to to finish the book (even though I had to go to church the next day), I finished the book at around midnight.

So, if we don't count breaks for lunch and dinner, I finished in 11 hours, my record time for a Harry Potter book.

What happened to everybody's avatars?

I started queueing around 11.30pm, before finally getting in the shop and picking the book up at 1.00am. Once I got home, I read until about 5.00am (by which time I was struggling to keep my eyes open!).

Then after turning in for the night, I spent Saturday reading and finally finished in the very early hours of Sunday morning.

I got the book around 9.30 am on saturday. I started reading in the afternoon, at about 1.30 . I took a lot of breaks because I didn't want it to end to soon. I read in it 3 times on saturday and about 5 times on sunday. I finished it around 10.30 pm sunday.
I don't really know how long it took me in hours to read it, but I intentionally stalled reading it sometimes. I was scared to read on... but couldn't help myself!

I'm much slower than all of you. I managed to get the first page done in the car by the little light. Then I read when I got home, surviving on ceral. I then fell asleep and read all through the next day, barely leaving my room. I then finished up yesturday at around four. Of course I took my breaks. My parents forced me out of the house to go blue berry picking with them, but I brought my book with me and then I was sad when I picked the blueberry's cause I had just read about Fred's death.

Well I got the book at midday because living in Saudi Arabia I wasn't sure if it would be available at midnight. I then started reading the book until 3:45 when I had to stop and go for my squash lesson. I came back at 4:30 ate lunch and sat around for a bit till five and started reading again. In between I stopped for about an hour to eat dinner but then I continued reading until 5:30 in the morning.

So the book took me approximately around 13 hours to read.

I wnet to the midnight opening, but I didn't get the book until about half 12 because of the queue. As soon as I got it, I started readingit and I didn't go to sleep. I ate my lunch and read at the same time. I only stopped when I litterally couldn't keep my eys open because of being up for over 32 hours. On Sunday I started reading it again until I finished. It took me about 25 hours to read the book completely, but over a span of 2 days.

Either everyone else is extremly fast at reading, or I'm extremly slow, because I was reading as fast as I could to find out what happened, but everyone else still seemed to read much quicker than me.

Haha, I tried to savor it, but it just didnt work. I started Saturday and got to around page 280, then whipped through to around 700 last night, then finished it this morning. I would have finished it last night but I just couldnt do it >_>;

It took me about 12 hours
i didnt eat but i did sleep!

I got the book at 12:30 at night,got home,went to sleep,woke up at 11:30 and starting reading.I finished the book yesterday.It was kind of funny because I was sick,so I was reading in the bathroom.

myself and my sister went to Whsmiths for the midnight opening, got home at about 12 30 made a coffee and sat an read till about 530, went to bed, hubby sorted the kids out and i got up at about 12 read for another 2 hours but started getting a migrain so took myself back to bed got back up at about 630 and read till nearly 10 so it took me around 10 hours to read, my sister took a bit longer so i withheld talking about it till she had finished the next morning, them we had a good old natter about the book.

The book came to my house at 2:00 pm in the afternoon, I pre-ordered it from amazon. My gosh the waiting was unbearable. I started reading it then....and stopped at 11:00...then woke up sunday and started at 9:00...then stopped at 5:30. Hmmm....let's see....that would be about...17 1/2 hours. I'm glad I didnt rush through it; I was determined to take in everything and not miss a single thing. Oh my I loved that book. : ]

It took me just over 7 hours.

I'd never been to a midnight release party, and since there won't be any more, I went this time. I walked out of the bookstore about 12:15 (I'd gotten a wristband at 9AM ) and started reading about 12:45. (I got home, changed into pajamas, took out my contacts, made some tea...)

I hadn't meant to stay up until I was done, but I did. When he woke up to me about 20 pages from the end my husband told me "You can't possibly have read the whole thing. You're just flipping pages."

it took me nine hours,i got the book at eight o'clock in the morning on saturday,but i had to go to town so by the time i got back it was about 9 o'clock at night,i started readind at 1 minute past nine had a rest a two o'clock then finish the book at half four the i read the book slowly over sunday and today

josh

I read the book in 9 hours. I started at 9:00 (the secound day it came out) and finished at the next day 2:46 in the morning. (that was with breaks. duh) I cried my little heart out in the end. I'm reviewing it now.

Nearly 9 hours. With loadsa breaks to get food lol.

After getting the book i read for 3hours strait! Then i gave up and wen't to bed. After i got up i read for about 2 hours. I was out untill 12pm and i read then for 5 hours. so that's about 10hours. And i'm now re-reading it.

flutterbye

I got home at 12:45 AM. I took a shower and started reading at 1:30 AM. By 6:00 AM I was so tired that I was nodding off as I read. I thought this was dangerous because I'd forget facts, so I fell asleep and then woke up again at 7:30 AM. I finished the book at around 11:00...with a short break for breakfast. So...around 8 or 9 hours.

It took me from saturday around 8 pm to about half an hour ago to read. It usually takes me a few hours to read the books but i took my time with this one (and i had constant interuptions)so it took me uhhh...8 or 9 hours of actually reading the book to finish it.

i got the book at about 11am on saturday morning (postman was really late ) read about 300 pages on saturday. i didnt read non stop but i put a good 5 odd hours in. i had to work most of sunday so only read about 150 pages then. finished the book about 4 pm on monday, so in all i reckon it took me about 12 hours all together

I got it from the post office at 6am and I walked home, 1.5 miles while reading, that was about 45 min and I got to chapter 4...then I finished it about oh say...6 hours later. So just about 7 hours of reading. Non-stop, just reading. My mum got really mad at me because I didn't do anything...

It took me about nine hours. But I took looong breaks, because I was on a mini break in London with my mother over the launch weekend (queue party was great by the way) and I we wanted to do some touristy stuff in between reading sessions. I still think nine hours is pretty fast considering the fact that English is not my native language.
Í am going to re-read it though.

I got the book at 12:35 at the midnight release and read the quotes at the beginning that sent shivers down my spine. I slept until 8:00 in the morning and started it right away. I got the book on the 21st of July and am now finished on the 23rd.

Got the book at 12:01, started reading immideatly. I took a break from 8 am to 10 am to sleep, then I finished it at about 1:30. So, about eleven and a half hours. I probably could have read it faster but I wanted to make it last.

I got the book at midnight.. Didnt start reading til 10 the next day.. Number one i was really tired.. and number two i wanted to devour the words.
I had about a 1- 2 hour break. Finished at about midnight.


Then sat up crying over snape for approximately half an hour. And played on my nintendo ds lite game - harry potter and the order of the phoenix til about 3 in the morning =]

It took me about 8 hours total. Got it in the mail about 1300. Finished reading at around 2300. Took breaks for food, family, etc.

Got it at midnight and started reading at about 12.45. Because I'm a really slow reader it took about 14-15 hrs. I had 3 - 4 hrs sleep in over 36 hrs.

I had like 2 hrs worth of breaks - one for dinner. Had to let my sister read it after me, but i will re-read it after her and my dad have finished with it.

Potters Phoenix

Okay, I got it at midnight and then read until 6 the next morning and then read all day and stayied up til midnight that night and then woke up about noon and finished around 6 last night... That was the quickest I have ever read a HP book!!!!!

My hubby bought me the book at 12:01am Sat, and I got it by 1:30 am, in which I read about 6 chapters...
By Sunday at 10am I was finished...and since have read it a little more thoroughly now...lol