User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4184285-20110722010515

What is Harry Potter to me? Harry Potter is an icon; a legend; a character and a world that are magical and that I grew up with. Most boys my age spend their time learning to play a sport or horsing around outside. I, on the other hand, have spent the better part of the last five years hungrily devouring anything dealing with Harry Potter, or his mysterious world, and I consider myself more than lucky to have been introduced to such an awe inspiring story. I've always been an avid reader. Most of the books in my personal library are series. So, I have grown to love many diverse characters. But none of them have struck or influenced me like Harry has. He, compared to the multitudes of other characters, is the perfect combination of all the traits I admire and look up to, but he also demonstrates those characteristics to an extreme. Harry Potter represents the person everyone desires to be, but especially for me. He is the personification of love, bravery, courage, loyalty, and all things good. Harry expresses the qualities of not only Gryffindor but all good traits of the Hogwarts Houses. Harry Potter proves to me that I am not the only person who wishes for a better world filled with wonderful people. He, although fictional, makes me feel obligated to be a better person. Harry takes me to a world where love and friendship do exist, and a place where good actually has the courage to stand up against and fight evil. Harry Potter is the symbol of a world that only exists in the dreams of man. That is what Harry Potter means to me.