User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4170884-20110719184738

I can barely remember a time before my knowledge of Harry Potter. I had no idea who he was or the series was until I saw a preview for the Sorcerer's Stone movie. My parents agreed, after much begging, to let me go to a midnight screening of it with my other friends and their parents. I was hooked. From then on, all my lunch conversations at school would be talking about the Harry Potter movie and how we would watch it over and over. We were really spoiled when it was released on VHS. Around the time the Chamber of Secrets trailer was out, we all began reading the books. From then on, we'd finish the book before the movie was out! The movies and books really are perfect in my eyes. Some will say that movies based on books are inferior to the original; Harry Potter is lucky to not fall to this due to the input of J.K. Rowling on the production. Harry Potter made me feel like I was a part of something. The dedicated fans, the lunch conversations, the worldwide phenomenon of seeing the next Harry Potter movie, and the symbolism of tolerance and good conquers all have made this journey a truly amazing, once in a lifetime experience. People in the future will be saying, "Where were you when the last Harry Potter movie was out?"