Top 10 Ways To Kill Time Before Reading "Deathly Hallows"

After ten years, six books, five movies, and 3,291 (yep, I counted) pages of magical wonder, the wait for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is nearly over. But how to kill those pesky final hours before receiving and ravishing your book? Ten suggestions:

10. Show your house loyalty by knitting a Gryffindor (or Slytherin, if you must) hat to match previously purchased scarf. Golden snitch knitting needles optional.

9. Speculate who should be cast in the next film! (Bill Nighy as the new Minister Of Magic? Genius!)

8. Ignore sniggering bystanders and organize your own Quidditch team. Snitch sold separately.

7. Shamelessly headbang your way through a set by Harry and the Potters, Draco and the Malfoys, or any other band in the burgeoning Wizard Rock musical movement. Save Ginny Weasley!

6. Debate who's the better audiobook reader: sonorous Brit Jim Dale or sonorous Brit Stephen Fry?

5. Assert the permanence of your Potter love by getting an iconic tattoo.

4. Write a nasty letter to New York Times critic and uber-spoilsport Michiko Kakutani. Repeat.

3. Daydream about the prospect of chasing a chocolate frog with a mug of butterbeer in "Hogsmeade Village" at Universal Studio's planned Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, currently scheduled in open in 2009. Ooh, Rosmerta, you lookin' fiiiiiine.

2. Reprimand yourself for inappropriately crushing on Daniel Radcliffe, before celebrating the fact he becomes legal (in the U.S., that is) on July 23.

1. Paint on a fake lightening bolt scar and get in line. Duh.