User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4150080-20110715092025

The Harry Potter series has made my relationship with my sister so much better and we've become much closer. It became a tradition that I would buy the newest Harry Potter book for her, once the fourth book was released. The books were mostly released in July and my sister's birthday was in August, so the book was supposed to be her birthday present. Once she read the book my mom and I would fight over who got to read it next. We rarely disagreed about the books (except when I said that Snape had a good reason to kill Dumbledore) and it gave us something else to talk about. My sister and I would sometimes be in a situation that we would think that we should just perform a spell, or apparate, and then we would realize that it was just a book/movie and the magic wouldn't work in "real" life. The books and movies came to life for my sister and I where we could see ourselves in the story and in that world. I feel like I know some of the characters in the Harry Potter universe than in my everyday life. Harry Potter is like a part of my family - a distant part that we only get to see once in a while. Although, my sister has seen the movies multiple times. She once was able to recite the entire :Chamber of Secrets" movie - line by line! It was a tradition, also, to see the midnight movie together. Now that it's over, we will begin the mourning process and then turn our sights to whatever the next franchise is. I don't believe that anything would capture our hearts and our minds as much as Harry, Ron and Hermoine and their stories, but it's worth a try.