User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4160232-20110718150231

wow... what harry potter means to me? alot of people can answer this question off the bat with a good old, "My childhood." but there's no way that that's a good enough answer for me. Harry Potter was created in '97, the year i was born and i started reading them when i was 5. it helped me with life lessons such as, "getting in trouble wont lead anywhere good." "being a friend means so much more than just talking with someone. you have to truely be a friend to have a friend." "elder wand, never prosper." all those good ones. It's impossible to say what the whole series has meant to me as a whole, because each book taught me something new about myself and has meant something different to me individually. The Sorcerer's Stone helped me find the little magic there is in real life and in the friends i have. The Chamber of Secrets helped me laugh at the small things in life and learn to trust what i believed, not what other people saw or judged them for based on their past, like Hagrid. The Prisoner of Azkaban taught me that everyone has a story behind them or what they've done, and sometimes you need to put their past behind you and get to know them yourself before judging. i learned from the Goblet of Fire that friendship and kindness will always prevail over hatred. The Order of the Phoenix showed me thatif you have an instinct, go for it. The Half-Blood Prince just helped prove my knowledge that only friendship and determination can truely defeat the enemy. The Deathly Hallows showed me that you need to be persistant and remind yourslef of what you're searching for or you'll never reach your goal. But it also showed me that friends stay friends no matter what. I have also read The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Quidditch Through the Ages,  and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I have enjoyed reading all of them and though i learned facts from Quidditch and Fantastic Beasts, Beedle really made me think about how to treat people and where true luck comes from. Harry Potter has not only taught me how magical our world truely is, but it has showed me how to do the simplest things with the biggest impacts. It has showed me that you cant get by in life without a little (or alot in the trio's case) adventure and if you're standing in the dark, simply, to turn on the light. Lumos!