User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4123857-20110711211208

Harry Potter is what showed me how much of a passion I have for books. I loved reading them, whether long or short, and it was always a different experience. Now that I have started to reread the series in anticipation for the 8th movie, I more deeply appreciate what they did for me. Also, growing up, my mother would read the books to us starting the day they came out. As I mentioned before, now that I am reading the series for the trillionth time, I can remember the late nights on our basement couch, listening to my mother's impersonation of a British accent while reading the dialogue, and her enthusiasm while reading some of her favorite character's lines. After the books were done, my family realized a chapter in our own lives had ended. Harry Potter will forever be ingrained in both heart and mind, no matter what.