User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4155944-20110716154240

i started reading harry potter when i was probably about seven or eight. and since then, i've been hooked. Harry Potter is part of my life. i can sit and read those books for hours on end and never get sick of them. to me harry potter is a something that lets you take a break from your own life and enter a world of wonder, adventure and magic. when i read the books and watch the movies, i feel like im right there next to harry, ron and hermione on all of their adventures. after the second movie came out, me, my sisters, and my cousins would pretend that our basement was the chamber of secrets. i was always ginny. we would also always go outside and search for sticks that could be wands. somehow we always managed to find extremely wandlike sticks. we would go out in the woods and shoot spells at each other. harry potter has always seemed real to me, and sometimes i wished that i could somehow end up in the wizarding world, be a part of it. actually, i still wish that. when i read all the books, i felt what harry felt, i felt like i was part of the story in a way. sometimes i would find myself being in the same mood as harry was in the part of the book i was reading at the time. if he was sad, i was too. if he was angry, i found myself mad too. if he was worried, anxious, happy, whatever it was, i was as well. recently i went to universal to see harry potter world. it was like a dream come true, i never wanted to leave. last night i went to the midnight premiere and when i left... i felt kind of empty inside. i was sad because i thought that harry potter, my life for the last decade, was over. done. but then i realized that even though the initial creation of all the books and movies of harry potter has ended, its not over. it never will. because as long as people are opening the books, reading the words on the page, pressing play on the movies, harry potter will never be over. he and his story will live on in us. harry potter has become a part of me, his story has changed me. well not really changed me, it helped create who i am today. the stories fueled my imagination and i dont think i would love reading as much as i do today if i hadnt read those books. so all in all, to me harry potter is an inspiration, a hobby, a lifestyle, a friend, an escape from the real world. harry potter will forever live in my heart.