User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4142123-20110713072559

What does Harry Potter mean to me? A heck of a lot. Harry Potter didn't catch my attention, at first. I was several books late to the fandom. What changed was a friend sending me an IM. 'Hey, I know you haven't seen the movie but I just saw the new HP movie. There's a line that made me think of you. I cried.' What was the line "I'll be in my room, not making any noise and pretending I don't exist.". My family wasn't as bad as the Dursley family. In fact, they loved me - still do - but I never FIT. Most of my time was spent in my room, reading, wishing someone, somewhere, would arrive and take me away to a place I fit in. I could relate to the Muggle born students in that way. And there were times that I just had to say "I'm weird and that's OK." - and that's something I leaned on a lot, leaning on the books and movies a great deal when I needed to.