If you were at the Borders on Mill Avenue Friday night, you may have run into Luna Lovegood, Severus Snape or even the wizard himself - Harry Potter.
In celebration of the seventh - and final - installment of the Potter series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the bookstore hosted a Grand Hallows Ball.
After a night of fortune telling, face painting and costume contests, more than 400 muggles (non-wizarding folk) waited in line for up to two hours to get their hands on "Deathly Hallows," when it was released just past midnight.
Steve Weingarten, a justice studies junior, had only read the first four books, but still reserved his copy of "Deathly Hallows" in May.
"Basically, the easy answer is I love Harry Potter," he said.
Megan Holcomb, who attended the party dressed as Looney - I mean Luna - Lovegood (complete with radish earrings and a cork necklace), showed up at the Borders around 8 p.m., when the party started.
After competing in the costume contest and wizarding spelling bee (she lost in the second round on the word "Quirrell"), she waited eagerly between the store's shelves for the big moment.
"I'm very excited," Holcomb said. "I'm also scared to find out what happens."
Holcomb isn't the only one.
"Deathly Hallows" has been long awaited by Potter fans the world over. The fate of Harry - and the entire wizarding world - lies within the book's 759 pages.
While the debate over whether Harry will live or die has been a hot topic of discussion among fans since the release of the sixth book, "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince," in July 2005, some people, like Gabriel Marquez, have firm ideas of what they would like to happen.
"I hope [Harry] lives," Marquez said, who was dressed in black robes with greased back hair to look like everyone's favorite worst enemy, Severus Snape. "But if I said I wanted him to die here, I'd probably get kicked out."
Others, like Kirsten Bularzik, didn't want to make a prediction.
"I don't want to think about it," she said, while decked out in her best wizard robes. "There are so many possibilities."
Still, other fans have theories about what might happen to "the boy who lived."
Pamela Sassi, who had been reading the Harry Potter books since the second installment came out about eight years ago, said she thinks the series might end similarly to the "Star Wars" saga.
"I think after everything, Harry will kill Voldemort, and he will become the bad one," she said, dressed in a frizzy wig and bottle-cap glasses, mimicking Professor Trelawney.
Regardless of how the series ends, it's been a good haul.
The first book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," hit bookshelves in June 1997, and the books have since sold more than 300 million copies.
And whether Harry lives or dies, the muggles and wizards alike in Tempe enjoyed the "Hallows" Borders bash.
"I'm excited I'm not the only old person here," Bularzik said.
Holcomb, dressed as Lovegood, agreed.
"It's fun," she said. "But I missed having pudding."
Kristi Eaton contributed to this report.
Reach the reporters at: kristi.eaton@asu.edu and tara.brite@asu.edu.
