I went to the midnight screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 2 with my boyfriend and it was so worth not getting to bed until 3am. I thought they did a really good job with the film. Apparently a lot of other people did the same thing....
My mom, who is a physician, was working a hospitalist night shift and was thrilled that it was opening night, because that meant less work for her. Because you see, what normally happens during the night shift is that soon-to-be patients are at home, get bored and then start looking for ways to entertain themselves. Some of these entertainment choices lead to legitimate ER visits, and then some people decide that their entertainment of choice is going to be to just show up at an ER and see what fun they can have. So it's a double whammy. Those who choose reckless entertainment need to be admitted to the hospital to get that lightbulb surgerically extracted and those who just show up for kicks are well...wasting everybody's time.
But on a night like opening night of the last Harry Potter movie none of these types of patients showed up to my mother's ER because they were all far too busy being dressed up and geeked out at their respective screening locales. My mom had so much free time on her hands she was able to call me during her shift and just chit chat with me as I was waiting in line for the movie. Small talk with my mother while she's on shift...that she instigated? That NEVER happens!
I feel bad for my mom that this is the last HP movie, and another occurrence such as this one is likily not to happen again for quite some time. I doubt the Twilight movies will have the same kind of draw. In fact, she'll probably have an upswing of visits from boyfriends who very suddenly come down with "acute gastroenteritis" in an attempt to get out of seeing it at midnight.
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