User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4162890-20110719013323

To me, Harry Potter isn't just a story. Quidditch, Hogwarts, all of it was supposed to be just this amazing place that J.K Rowling created in a fictional universe. But now look at what we have. Quidditch is played at certain colleges across the US, and Hogwarts and Hogsmeade are all coming to life. I mean, look at why we're all writing this: Hogwarts is an actual place we can go to. Harry Potter was once confined to a book, but now it has seeped out into the "real world" as well. Harry Potter has brought me friends that I would have never even spoken to if it wouldn't have been for the fact that we had Harry's adventures as a common love. So, Harry Potter is friendship, love, and hope to me. Jo started with nothing, but now she's one of the richest and most popular women in the world. She became a writer, and proved that you can do more in your life than sit around and wait for something to happen. To me, Harry Potter is real, or at least can become real. And when I read, I envisioned so much that objects popped up into my head. And "of course it's in your head, but why should that mean its any less real?"