User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4159137-20110717101419

I think what Harry Potter means to me is that no matter how different or rather unspectacular you feel, you are still somebody who means something to the world, if you know it or not and I find that really relate-able in my life and in many others. Before I read Harry Potter, I wasn't particularity into reading, but when I read my first HP book, I can completely fascinated with not only his life, but this amazing world he was apart of and how it was a world I desperately wanted to be a part of as well. My life as a kid was so normal and boring, and I could relate to harry in the first book, how he felt that there wasn't anything special or great about him, yet he had a talent and an entire history he wasn't aware of. My friends and I when we were younger would pretend to do spells and hold potions and care of magical creatures lessons in our bedrooms, trying to make this magical world real to us. We'd stay up late at night obsessing over the new movies and books, going over our theories of what was yet to come in future novels. This was our life, and as we watched harry and his friends grow, we grew as well. We used to joke saying that Hogwarts just forgot to send us our letters and would send them sometime at a later date. After reading the books, I would sigh to myself, wishing that I could live in Harry's world and how much better life would be. Harry Potter was an escape from the "real world" to this beautiful, magical, thoroughly described world we all wanted to be a part of, yet wasn't too different from our own lives. The settings were different, but the personal stories amongst the characters and the feelings they felt, were shared and understood by other harry potter fans. That is What Harry Potter is to me, a close friend, and a huge part of my life that may be ending soon, but will never be forgotten.