User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4141404-20110713015829

Harry Potter is what made me who I am today. Harry, his friends, even his enemies, helped me dive into the depths of my imagination and shape the person I wanted to be. I wanted to be a open-minded, understanding, and creative person, and that's exactly who I turned out to be. Harry and his friends grew up with me and guided me through the motions of adolescence. Reading the books, I was immersed; I was right along side them as they had adventures I could only dream of experiencing, but they still had moments that were so real and so human. It wasn't magic. It was reality. The fact that you could find these fragments of reality amidst this world of magic amazes me. Maybe me and my real-life friends didn't have wands or attend Hogwarts, but we were very capable of experience a similar emotional ride. This was the bridge between the fiction and non-fiction, the wizarding world and the muggle world, Harry's life and my own. I'm eternally grateful to J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter. Harry Potter means the world to me; a world beyond my own, yet one I will never forget.