User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4140729-20110712212613

As many in my generation, the world of Harry Potter marks an era that few of us will forget. The novels taught us the importance of love, (to quote Dumbledore) "a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature," the meaning of true friendship, and that, regardless of background, we can all go on to do great things. Many of us waited on our eleventh birthdays for our Hogwarts letters as we used our imaginations to unlock worlds beyond our own. Though our letters never came, we still read, fascinated at the world that J.K. Rowling created. The morals and overarching themes of the series are universal and have opening many peoples' eyes to the wonder that is literature. Most importantly it has taught me to never tickle a sleeping dragon, and for that, and everything else Ms. Rowling has given her readers, I will be eternally grateful.