User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4140723-20110712211845

Asking what Harry Potter means to me is rather like asking me to describe what friendship or memory means to me; it's been such a dependable, joyful, and even necessary part of my life for over ten years now, and it's no exaggeration to say that I don't know what my life would look like if I hadn't picked up that first book when I was nine. Because I did, I have met so many people, traveled so many places ( literally and figuratively!), learned and grown so much that it's quite impossible to imagine where I would be without Harry. This last movie comes out just as I'm preparing to leave home for the first time and begin college, and it feels an appropriate end to this era of my life; Harry Potter has been my childhood in many ways, and through the characters I have learned so much about love, loyalty, devotion, and perhaps above all, hope. These are all things that I hope to take with me as I continue my own journey, and because of that, I feel very confident that Harry will remain close as ever in my adulthood.