User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4088549-20110716050302

Reading + fun. Harry Potter, the series, is the best thing to happen to recreational reading in the last twenty-five years. It got kids who weren't interested in reading at all to read for fun. It got adults reading children's books, whether they had children of their own or not. It got everyone engaged, anticipating the next book or movie. It's a brilliant story told by a master storyteller, who built the ultimate good vs. evil, coming-of-age tale character by character, chapter by chapter, book by book. Along the way, she dealt with social issues like prejudice, personal issues like facing fear, historical issues like the antecedents of war. She didn't stint or mollycoddle. We read, we watched, and as a byproduct we learned. But mostly we had a good time. Reading.