User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4135701-20110711090016

I first picked up Harry Potter when I was seven. I suffered from depression and hated reading. Harry Potter changed my entire life. I love the characters, the world, and the story more than I could ever write down. I've read every book a dozen or more times, and listened to them on audio a hundred more. Even after having near memorized them I can still lift myself up from whatever has brought me down just by turning the pages, or listening to of any of the seven books. J. K. Rowling got an entire generation and more to love reading, including myself, and is nothing less than goddess among us. She created a world that I loved when I first picked it up and continue to do so with no end in sight. If a single thing has had a greater impact on the world or myself, since 1997 I don't know it. -CMK