User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4140407-20110712191935

For me, Harry Potter has been everything I loved about growing up. It's been all the imagination and adventure you dream up as a kid and can never perfectly translate. The books have done a really good job of reiterating to me the ideas of good and evil, friendship, loyalty and all the things that make us heroic in our everyday lives. I think possibly the most incredible part of my life with Harry, Ron, Hermione, Sirius, Lupin, Snape, Dumbledore, Neville, Luna, and literally every other wonderful character has been the fact that I share that journey, and its lessons, with millions and millions of people. More than facebook or twitter or even the ancient power of myspace, Harry Potter has made me feel connected to millions of people in countries I may never set foot in. People that speak languages I may never understand, know quidditch and horcrux, there is a small but effusive language built into the world of Hogwarts, Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley that we all speak. I guess when it comes down to it it's what Jo said at the premiere, no matter where I am in my life, Hogwarts is there to welcome me home. Thanks for this contest, the prize is incredibly but unnecessary, I have been trying to put my Harry Potter experience into words for days, this was just the fuel I needed.