User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4162920-20110718051919

Harry Potter has been a big part of my life ever since I laid my hands on my first copy of The Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter is what brought me into the world of literature. I never read much as a child before that, preferring the TV to a "boring" book. A few pages in and I was hooked; hooked for many, many years to come. Every summer I reread the series, turning the pages just as excitedly. All over the world Harry Potter has become a big part of everyone's life. It's good to know it will live on forever within our hearts and our imagination. Oh, how Harry Potter has affected my imagination... Wizards? Broomsticks? Enchanted castles? These things surely only exist in fairytale books. Now there's an ever waging war between the wizards and the goblins raging in my head, fueled by the giants' blind fury. And at my own will I can calm everything down and Dobby could come out and help set up a nice picnic for the feuding sides. All these ideas and concepts became dreams of mine and have helped keep me writing myself for years now. A girl and her twin, who are actually halves of each other split within the womb, can exist on my paper too. They can combine too, dance, sing, whatever I would please them to do. Harry Potter taught me how to dream and create ideas of my own, ideas that in no way could be matched to theirs, but all the same. How many times have I wanted to visit the theme park in Orlando? Oh, you can bet your Galleons that its over a thousand. :) Hopefully Harry Potter will continue to inspire everyone around the world for as long as the generations are wiling to pass down battered copies of the original seven books.