User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4130466-20110709082239

This whole series has been absolutely magical for me, especially through its darker characters Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy. Their struggles throughout the series mean that no matter how hard it gets, you can't go back and no matter how few people trust you, you alone know what you are doing. No matter what anyone else thinks of you, it is in your power to prove them wrong, even if you have to die to prove it. Snape also taught me what it was to be selfless even if it wasn't always fun. Even if I haven't been put in such an extreme position, it means so much to me to know that it's possible to endure that kind of stress and that kind of responsibility. But besides that, Harry Potter means so much to me because I entered high school the summer the final book was published and I left the summer the final movie was due to be released. I graduated bearing on my graduation cap the scene of the first years' boats crossing the lake with Hogwarts in the background. My final project in my sewing class was a quilt bearing a Snitch, a lightning bolt, a broomstick, the Deathly Hallows, the diadem and Hedwig. Harry Potter means everything to me because it's everything that was ever good about high school. It doesn't hurt either that my quilt got me a passing grade.