User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4142359-20110713101535

I'm not sure how well I can explain what Harry Potter is to me, mainly because I'm not sure there are the right words to. I guess, to me and so many others, that Harry Potter practically means my entire childhood. I'm 15 years old, so Harry Potter has literally been a part of the majority of my life. I remember reading the books for the first time (I even remember the exact spot I sat in the first time I ever read a HP book), watching the movies for the first time and crying when I couldn't watch Order of the Phoenix with my friends. I remember worrying that my dad wouldn't be able to secure a Deathly Hallows book they day it came out, and thinking that I'd never be able to read it. The first time that I finished reading Deathly Hallows was truly memorable, and I don't think that there is a space in my room, or a time anywhere in my life where I haven't spoken about, read, made a joke about or quoted something to do with Harry Potter. My friends and I, at school, all we do is talk and quote the books and movies, even shed tears just talking about how great Part 2 of Deathly Hallows would be (and it was truly amazing). So I guess, to me, that Harry Potter is technically my entire life and childhood, the one thing other than my family that has been there basically my whole life. It is my one true passion that no Muggle can attempt to understand, and to us Potterheads everywhere, Harry Potter is a lot more than just a book series. Like Daniel Radcliffe said, "stories live on forever, as long as there's someone there to tell them". The world of magic, mystery and Harry Potter is somewhere that fans everywhere can retreat into at anytime, and it also has life lessons in it. It teaches people everywhere, at any age, about the values of goodness, courage, love and friendship (the difference of good and evil) which, in the end, are the true magic of the series, and that’s what it means to me. LONG LIVE POTTER!!! :)