User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4141125-20110712233216

I avoided reading Harry Potter for a long time. I was NOT going to get sucked into that pop culture phenomenon. I was too old. I had too much to do. Kids to raise, work hours to put in, a house to clean, etc. After the 7th book came out my sister-in-law came over and dropped that huge stack of hard cover books on my counter. THUMP! "Read them," she told me. So, I opened the first one and started to read. After totally ignoring my family and taking "reading breaks" at work for two weeks, I finally closed book 7. Then I opened book 1 and started over. Wow, no other book has ever captured my imagination and altered my universe the way Harry Potter did. I wanted to learn more, appreciate all of the layers and connections, and talk to others who feel the same way. This is how I became an over-35 HP podcast junkie, a daily checker of HP web sites, and overall HP geek. Life will NEVER be the same. Go Harry!