User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4136291-20110711154019

Harry Potter to me is part of my childhood. It's as big of an event in my life as learning to ride a bicycle or my first day of school. It all started by buying the first book. Ever since that moment my family has bought every book, been many midnight releases of the books and attended as many opening midnight showings for the movies as possible. Harry Potter brings back many memories for me. My whole family would participate in the reading of the books. I sometime would read aloud if my mother read too much to us in one night but mostly my mom would read to us because she would do voices. Each night My sister and I would make ourselves comfortable in the living room while my mom sat in her recliner and my dad laid on the floor. And each night we were beg her to read one more chapter even if she'd read twelve that night. It still amazes me just how much the voice she gave Dobby, the house elf, sounded like he did in the movies. As a family we have cried when people died, we have rejoiced in the victories and argued over who was our favorite characters. Harry Potter has also been a treat growing up with the friends that I have. Even now that I am twenty years old my friends and I have lengthy discussions over which characters are truly evil, truly good and which ones play the line so well that it's too hard to tell .I actually met one of my best friends in the movie theater for a Harry Potter midnight showing. I've collected tshirts, dvds, books, extras anything I could find of Harry Potter at the time. I've watched almost all the movies out right now in one day and My sister and I love to just throw our favorite quotes from the books and movies back and forth. We like watching the movies and speaking along with them to prove who remembers the most about each one. I've loved dressing up for book releases, movie showings and just for fun. My friends and family have sorted each other into houses and we gladly embrace it. Even if my sister and a few friends are Gryffindor, one of my friends is definitely a Ravenclaw and I, myself, am a Slytherin. We love all the fun and games that Harry Potter has brought to us. We've struggled between books and movies just waiting. I have been wonderfully blessed to grow up on such a wonderful book/movie series that has not only meant so much to me but my family and friends as well. I have laughed so hard I cried, I have cried so hard I got laughed at. My sister and I fully intend to keep Harry Potter in our family and the families we will have forever. It doesn't matter if it becomes old news. Harry Potter will never be old news to my family. It started by chance and grew in to something we love. It's like I told my sister two things the other day the first is that I will have no problem telling my kid "No dear, we do not use magic on muggles." and Harry Potter isn't something to just be forgotten about. In the end Harry Potter is a lifestyle choice. Because, since the first night my mother cracked Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone I became attached. To each character's story and life. My family did also. This is why even now we still get animated every time something is mentioned on tv or someone brings Harry Potter up in conversation. We still get anxious even as the final movie draws near. Harry Potter will always mean so much to me and my family, it will never be over for us.