User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4172802-20110720030410

Harry Potter is my childhood; my best friend. The one thing that I could always count on to be there when everything else crashed around me; sometimes the only like when everything else went dark. Harry Potter taught me so many life lessons in which has helped shape me to become the person I am today. It taught me that I don’t need to be anything but myself, bravery, the importance of friendship and above all, the willingness to sacrifice everything for the people you love. I remember the first book came out when I was in 3rdish grade; my mother had to read the first 3 books to me because I wasn’t able to read them myself. These are the books that got me into reading. The books that have gotten me through so much hardship; my father moving states, my father’s side of the family wanting nothing to do with me, the endless bullying at school and home, my best friend moving; almost being homeless, my grandmother dying and countless others. Harry Potter and Hogwarts was and is always going to be my first love and home. My life will be forever dedicated in 7 ways: To Harry, To Ron, To Hermione, To Dumbledore, To Snape, To Dumbledore's Army, and to J. K. Rowling for sticking with me until the very end. The world of Harry Potter is the one place I truly belong.