User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4154142-20110716050200

What does Harry Potter as a series mean to me? Well it's not the over used "ten wonderful years of my life" description some may post, it's more than ten years of leading a life with a foot in this one, and Harry's world. Harry Potter is the series that has instilled the values of friendship, loyalty, courage, and acceptance into my life, and has become a significant part of my outlook on things. I grew up with the films more so than the books, it doesn't make me any less of a fan to dare say that Deathly Hallows as a whole worked wonders for me as a film. The series ended for me this morning at a 10:10 am showing, which I didn't partake in the gimmicky IMAX or 3D formats, and I just teared up realizing how it was like saying goodbye to a world we all shared, shaped, and dearly miss. Every one of us escaped in those pages written by JK Rowling, we loved, laughed, cried with her characters until the very end. As Dumbledore stated "help will always be available to those who seek it in Hogwarts" and in that we can trust that out friends will always be waiting for us. We may never board the Hogwarts Express, nor sip butterbeers with Ron, Hermoine, and Harry in Hogsmeade, but we can certainly imagine it. So Harry Potter to me means an escape from the mundane, to be true to ourselves, to be strong and never mourn our losses, for it's the living that need us most.