User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4143065-20110713152233

Harry Potter shaped me into the adult I am today. When I started reading Harry Potter back in 2000, I was painfully shy and desperately trying to fit in with the "cool kids." Harry Potter helped me come out of my shell. When I started reading the books, I would have died rather than go to school or a movie theater dressed in robes. By the time I graduated high school in 2003, I was in my local paper several times for dressing up for movie premiers. I threw a huge party at my house for the COS movie and went to school dressed like a Hogwarts student. More importantly, I could care less what those "cool kids" thought of me. If it weren't for Harry Potter, I might still be painfully shy and worried about what others think of me. Now I know the only opinion I care about is my own.