User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4189001-20110722235557

This summer has been hard on me and my family. My mother is currently unemployed and my older brother deciding to live with my father. I am left alone in my grandparents house ignoring my friends, thinking " how can they possibly understand what its like to have almost everything you've known ripped from beneath you ", I've picked fights with my mother for no reason, maybe just to relieve stress, and until I finally got my hands on the first of the Harry Potter novels i didn't know how ungrateful i was actually being. Harry Potter taught me not to wallow in despair, not to sleep in all day depressed and feeling so much pity for myself. He taught me not to take things for granted, and to know, it could be worse. As my mom work and strives to support me and my brother I know that its my job to stand behind her and give her the supports that not my grandparents or anyone else can give her. As her daughter it is my job. I think of my mom brother and me as Harry, Ron, And Hermione. We have a bond no one can come between, and we will continue to strive to make ends meet. I can now wake up with a smile on my face and know everything will be okay.. why? Well because of Harry Potter. Hopefully in the future my brother will come live with us in our own little apartment, and sit around laughing and eating a hearty meal, just like the Weasley family !