User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4152094-20110715195650

What does Harry Potter mean to me? Harry Potter was a way of life. it was a way for kids of my own generation to continue to read when logic and statics told us we would stop. We looked logic in the face and screamed "expelliarmus!" I mean Harry Potter to me was a way to live in another world. To a kid abused my whole life. Harry was my hero! Reading the books was like reading about myself. I formed so much Harry into who I am today. I feel that i can connect with every bit of Hogwarts and the wizarding world. I probably know more about the ministry of Magic than the muggle politics of today. Harry Potter was a friend, a confident, a hero, and the boy who lived. The boy who reminded all of us we can look defeat in the eye and conquer! I will never forget what Harry is to me. What the book series is to me. What the movies made real for me. The made life real! It got me to read and study and want to be the smartest kid in my class, to be the Granger everyone thought i could be. To be as serious about the real world as I am in the wizarding world. It was a way of life. i scrap booking adventure, book signing, wizard duals in my dorm parking lot. So what is Harry Potter to me... Harry Potter is a piece of ME! and every other child who cried the day they realized their Hogwarts letter was not coming, but in a sense it came with every new book, and every new movie. And now It's done...But Hogwarts will always teach if there is but one student WILLING to learn. I will never stop wanting to learn! That's what Harry Potter is...A will to never stop. A will to ALWAYS learn...and way to ALWAYS be a part of Dumbledore's Army. A way to make sure it never ends! Harry Potter is the end of the beginning. and a beginning of the end. Harry Potter to me....is a way of life, and a way to never stop living. Hogwarts and the wizarding world Forever!