User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4155759-20110716152447

Back in 2001 when the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone movie was released I don't recall getting too excited about Harry Potter. At the time I was fully immersed into everything Lord of the Rings. Most people that have left comments on different Harry Potter web sites have actually grown up with Potter. I was already in my twenties when the Harry Potter phenomenon started taking hold. I watched the movies first all the way up to the Deathly Hallows part one before I even read the first book. It was last December that I started reading the books, but I had wanted to read the books prior to that, but never got around to it. As soon as I started to turn the pages on the first book I was hooked! I had all seven books to mull through and my excitement just continued to grow and my love of Harry Potter exploded. Harry Potter means a great deal to me today. Starting off as a mere curiosity into Harry Potter has allowed me to grow into a full die hard fan. I love J.K. Rowling's pure imagination of the world of Harry Potter and the underlining messages that it conveys. I thought it particularly interesting just how much it compares to the Lord of the Rings and yet it is incredibly fresh. It has allowed me to take a look back at my own childhood and realize many things about myself and about humanity. Many dark and terrible things happen every day in our world, even to the purest and good at heart, and we may not always know just how our journeys might end, but what one has to remember is that everyone has a choice. Love really is the most powerful emotion (magic) one can posses and just realizing that can overcome the most darkest evil in our lives.