I was JUST describing this midnight release party at Borders to a friend!!! Thank you for being the person who keeps everything!!!!!! That evening is forever in my memory bank.
So there was this completely unhinged Russian translation of Harry Potter (thankfully, not the most popular one) that completely butchered the names. Severus Snape was renamed to "Злодеус Злей" - literally, "Villainous Evil". Was real fun in the last book, especially the epilogue