We reserved ours way back in February, and went to the bookstore in the afternoon on Friday to get a bracelet to claim the book. The store did the bracelets by letter (A got books first, then B, etc). We got F. We went to the store dressed up, it was so much fun! It was very well organized and the line went fast. We had our book by 12:40 and were home by 1am.
There weren't very many news crews at the book store. I didn't see any. But the newspaper must have been there, because there was an article in the paper about it, but I didn't see them there.
One of my neighbors actually works at a TV station, and she told them about us dressing up and being such HP fans. She told my mom that the station might be interested in interviewing us if they have a slow news day!
They would have interviewed us if they knew about us before the book came out.