User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4144798-20110713235132

To me, Harry Potter and everyone else in the book series is like the family I never got to have. Watching Harry, Ron, and Hermoine grow up makes me feel like my younger siblings have been going through all of this. I wanted to protect them from the world in the first few books/movies. Now, I want to hang out with them and reminisce about all the good times (and horrifying times) that we had. When certain characters died, part of me died. I had to stop reading the book series for a while after Order of the Phoenix came out. I couldn't handle any more people I loved being ripped away from me, and Harry. But now, I understand why it was so painful and I'm living with it. The story of Harry Potter is one of the most original I've ever read and I can't imagine that my life would be the same without those stories. For all the seriousness that the stories have brought to our lives, they have also brought unimaginable happiness and an incredible amount of laughter.