User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4142305-20110713184947

There are some things that are to magical to contain in one sentence, or even two, or three. Harry Potter is a culmination of my childhood. We're the same age, harry and I, and as I read; I longed for the same things. The wonders that everyone could live vicariously through a boy wizard and his antics amuses me to no end. I started writing about my second grade year, when I would concoct wild stories and tell them to my friends. I wrote many of them down and still have them today. That year, Harry Potter came out and my friends who could not appreciate reading began to check every copy of the book out of the library. I think it just goes to show that it's not just magic on the page, but it's magic to those whose lives it's touched.