User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4173284-20110721190148

I've read a lot of the previous posts and I'm seeing a lot of people saying that Harry Potter means their childhood to them and I can understand why they would say that. The Harry Potter books were a series, and even still are, that many of us grow up reading and enjoying. However, that doesn't make them mean my childhood to me. The reason I say that is that they weren't my childhood, to me these books were an escape from my childhood. I didn't have thehardest time growing up, but I didn't have the easiest one either. Whenever I found myself unable to deal with my real life I was able to turn to these books and read them as a way to temporarily escape my life. They were just so immersive and well written that I could just let my troubles fall away from me while I read them. When I was reading these books as a child it seemed like all the bad things in the world just didn't matter because there was this other, wonderful world out there just waiting for me to find it. So yea, I guess what I am trying to say is that to me the Harry Potter series wasn't my childhood or this great inspiring tale, it was an escape to a fantasy world where I could just get away from all my troubles for just a little while.