User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4149062-20110715022956

Harry Potter means to me a way of interesting children in reading again... The surge of books in a fantasy genre for children weren't read by adults for the most part until the Harry Potter books. What JK Rowling did with Harry Potter was make it "cool" to read again. As an adult presented with these books, I gave the excuse that it was a children's book and therefore not someone an adult should be reading. But what's so great about the books is that they appeal to young and old. They are timeless. I never tire of re-reading them. I'm happy I was able to finally share them with my children & that they enjoyed them as much as I did. The books transport you away into the world of Harry Potter completely. You find yourself wishing that the world could be real. These are really the first books that I've truly ENJOYED reading (and re-reading) for quite some time. It was a bittersweet thing when I read the last (7th) book... wanting to rush through it and find out all those answers that I hoped were revealed, but also wanting to savor every word, since this was the last book. That's what Harry Potter means to me... it's like being a kid again on Christmas morning seeing what Santa left under the tree. What a wonderful gift J.K. Rowling gave to us.