User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4151825-20110715184750

To me, Harry Potter was the biggest catalyst in my life to date. Beginning with the very first novel as a child, my family and I would read them together, entranced by the beautiful storytelling of J.K. Rowling. As time went on, and as the stories grew, I grew with them- they became much more real, and were a very huge part of my family life. With the final movie coming out and the fact that I'm leaving for college in a month, so too has my childhood symbolically ended- and to end something that has been going on for many years is very difficult. But my childhood would not be the same without Harry Potter- it became who I was, it changed who I was. It helped me make friends, it gave me a passion for reading. I would not be who I was today without those books, and that is why Harry Potter means everything to me.