User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-1323767-20110718201414

I started to read Harry Potter by chance when somebody finished the first book and left it for somebody else to enjoy it, on top of a NYC Subway seats. I got to the seat and found the book with NO dust cover and a post it on it that read: "Let yourself to be transported, enjoy and pass it on... " It made me smile and open the book automatically. My subway stop is on 125th St. in NY and I was taking the subway at Chambers St. I had a good half hour ahead of me and opened the book. I realized I was totally hooked up to the story when the subway stopped at 207st. As silly as it might sound I change directions only to realized I got totally hooked again when I hit 59th St. Put the book down. Got home and finished it that same night. After finish it I replaced the Post it on top of the cover and left it in the subway once I got to my work stop.

Since then every Harry Potter Book I bought I left on the subway so somebody else read it. On HP7 I left a post it with the exact same phrase as the one I found but created an email address. I got to exchange emails with a girl that read the book I left. And then a woman that got the book as well as I did and the girl did when she finished. The woman told me she never read the books until she found that one and thank me because after reading the first chapter HAD TO RUN INTO THE BOOK STORE to get the rest. She got the complete collection and is NOW reading it to her Granson who just turned 6 y/o.

Harry Potter for me was and will always be THE STORY that bought me back to my childhood. From getting absolutely hooked up to fantasies and forget the REAL WORLD (at least for a while) to remind me of my own childhood day dreams when 30 years a go (when I was 6) I used to play I was a great wizard. Brought tears, laughs but most of all gave me the chance to PASS THE MAGIC ON to others. I think J.K. R. tried to do that when she wrote it. Pass the MAGIC ON... OR SIMPLY GIVE US BACK THE POSSIBILITY OF DREAM AGAIN... even when you are (as I am) 36 years old and you are most of the time immersed in a GROWN UP world that most of the time kill every fantasy with reality!