User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4140635-20110722045234

The Harry Potter series is the ultimate escape: it's a magical world with very real problems, yet somehow it allows you to forget about your own worries for a bit, while also giving you bits of advice on how to deal with your own real world troubles. Every book has an adversary and a choice: do the right thing even if it's difficult, or go the easy road. While we might imagine we'd do the right thing, if given the opportunity, we see what happens when someone (Harry) does make that choice, again and again. It's humbling, as well, to realize that anyone can be anything: an evil wizard in the making, a clumsy classmate who is stronger than so many others, a best friend in the strangest of places, an unlikely protector in whom you thought was an enemy. Harry Potter helps us to see there are so many facets to human beings, and to appreciate those facets.