User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4196496-20110724191924

What does Harry Potter mean to me? More than anyone will ever imagine. My family likes Harry Potter, but they do not understand my love, or what they call, obsession over it. I am now 19 and I have been reading the books since I was in 3rd grade. I went to see every movie the day they came out (I could go to every midnight show because my parents thought I was too young). I did, however, go to the midnight shows when I was older. I have grown up with Harry and his friends, and he has taught me so much more than I could have learned at school. He taught me that even though I am different, that doesn't mean I can get friends, friends that would like me for me not what I have done. This helped me to not be as antisocial as I would have been without him. Later on in life, he became something I could go to when I needed someone to talk to that would not judge me. He taught me that even if I might feel resentful or angry, that doesn't mean I am 'evil' because people are not either heroes or Death Eaters. The movies helped me also, because I had people I could look at and it helped my imagination. I wanted to go to WWoHP for my 21st birthday, but I am a college student, which means that I am poor.