User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4189180-20110723005003

Once upon a time, in 1999, a little lost girl had barely any friends and was constantly bullied. This little girl was in the 4th grade when her teacher read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone aloud to her classroom. Everything changed. She made friends, she became braver, she began to grow. If I could put every emotion she went through into words, her story could rival Harry's in length and content itself. This little lost girl grew into a woman who found herself, but was at a loss for words when J.K. Rowling thanked everyone in Deathly Hallows if they stuck with Harry until the very end. She had, of course, but unbeknownst to J.K. Rowling and Harry, so had they. They had stuck with her when the bullies called her names, when her favorite pet died, when her best friend walked away and when she made another, and even when she faced things that could rival a dementor's horror-- at least in her mind. At 17, what would have technically been her 7th and final year in Hogwarts-- the same as Harry, when the 7th book came out, perhaps one story had ended but, to her, she had an entire new one to look forward to. Oh, and the movies coming out, that helped too. But I digress, this little lost girl found out that she wasn't so lost after all, and in the darkest of times, Hogwarts had been and will always be there to welcome her home. Come what may, she is ready.

Too long? Too sappy? Too clear I was that little girl?! Ah, oh well, I digress...! It's like I said before, to put into words how I grew up alongside Harry is beyond powerful and I fear I could never do it true justice. Good luck, fellow contestants, may Harry always be with you the way you have been with him! <3