User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4184285-20110722012108

What is Harry Potter to me? Harry Potter is an icon; a legend; a character and a world that are magical and that I grew up with. Most boys my age spend their time playing sports. I, on the other hand, have spent the better part of the last five years of my life hungrily devouring anything to do with Harry, or his wizarding world. I consider myself more than lucky to have been introduced to such an awe inspiring story. I've always been an avid reader and most of my books are a part of a series. So, I have grown to love many diverse characters. But none of them have struck or influenced me like Harry has. He, compared to the multitudes of the other characters, is the perfect combination of all the traits I admire and look up to, but he also demonstrates those characteristics to an extreme. Harry Potter represents the person everyone wants to be, but especially for me. He is the personification of love, bravery, loyalty, and all things good. Harry Potter proves to me that I am not the only person who wishes for a better world filled with wonderful and ideal people. His world is a utopia. Harry, although fictional, inspires a longing to do good in me. Harry exists in a world where love and friendship are real, and good actually does stand up against and fight evil. Harry Potter is the symbol of a world seen only in the dreams of man. That is what Harry Potter means to me.