Comments | spoiled_alumni: Marketing whoopsies

crazyjane13 in spoiled_alumni

Marketing whoopsies

Jul 23, 2007 14:03

As pointed out to me by a friend ...

Borders (at least Down Here) was selling copies of DH with a free ... wait for it ... beanie owlGiven Hedwig's pathetic demise, don't you think there are marketing people in the HP empire now looking on with horrified guilt as millions of little kids burst into tears, clutching their beanie owl, after reading ( Read more... )

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jigglypuff July 23 2007, 04:08:14 UTC

Holy shit. I want one. I want two. I can explode one and keep the other.

crazyjane13 July 23 2007, 04:16:19 UTC

I want to take a photo of one and caption it with the page number on which Hedwig kicks the bucket.

"Page XX - you have been warned"

jigglypuff July 23 2007, 04:16:55 UTC

Do you have one?

crazyjane13 July 23 2007, 04:20:07 UTC

Alas, not yet, but I think I know someone who has.

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likeagony July 23 2007, 14:37:16 UTC

That is pretty terrible XD
Hahah...

littlestarletta July 23 2007, 19:15:03 UTC

aww sad - I can just imagine someone holding it and reading it with their owl and then hedwig dies and they cry into the owl beanie LOL

citrified July 24 2007, 01:22:00 UTC

I bet J.K. suggested it. What a sadist. xD Her dark side really shows through in this book. Mmmmmhhh...

g1nab1na July 24 2007, 01:22:34 UTC

Oh, dear- that is screwed up! Ha!