User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4156559-20110716181731

Harry Potter means…I can’t put it into words. It’s so important to me it’s hard to phrase exactly right. It means having a story consume me and take up place in my heart and grow with me. I guess that’s the simplest explanation. Harry Potter, the story and the characters, all live and beat along side my heart. Potter gives me a constant, a group of friends that grew up with me, values and lessons that helped me develop my morality. It basically means the world to me and will stay with me. Always. It means getting into arguments over dinner about the characters, it means having midnight discussions about what might happen next, it means bonding with strangers over the simple joy of a radiant ( and completely true mind you) story. It means being in a gargantuan theatre that is packed at 1 midnight after arriving 4 hours earlier and everyone is wearing a costume and overjoyed to just be there. Everyone cheers when the previews end and the a simple movie logo makes me burst into tears. It means bawling because you can’t kid yourself and it truly is over. It means realizing at the end that my childhood is now on the Hogwarts Express and has officially come to an end as it fades into the distance. It means wailing when the characters you grew up with get to be happy. I know I’ve been lengthy but I guess I’m trying to say is Harry Potter is synonymous with home, feels like a blanket wrapped around your soul, and it means always have that piece of home inside of you, beating with you.