User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4188455-20110722205651

Harry Potter to me, is a lifestyle and life savor. When I was young I suffered from severe depression and my friend Sarah and I always talked about books, we loved to read. Right before my eleventh birthday we were in the library when she picked up Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, handed it to me, and said "I really think you'll like this one. It's about magic." After seeing Harry, what he went through and as I got older the characters who reminded me the most of myself, Tonks and Luna, I had someone to relate to. After that it never stopped, I have since never missed the midnight opening of a book or film. I've spent hours making Weird Sisters shirts and building wands. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows film release fell right after my 23rd birthday. I've grown up with Harry, Ron and Hermione. The end of their childhood marked the end of my childhood. They taught me about love and friendship. Sometimes I think they saved me from myself. If Harry could make it, so could I. One day I would find something to live for and Harry taught me that was love. Be it with a friend or someone you'll spend your life with. I will never forget the first time I read a Harry Potter book, or the first time I dressed up for a film. Or this year when the series closed and I was in theater #7 dressed as Ginny.