User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4132015-20110709223356

Harry Potter to me, means my childhood. I have literally grown up reading and watching these movies. It means the world to me. Whenever I am down or upset, I can turn to anything Harry Potter related and feel loads better. I have read these book so many times that whenever I take them out again, my dad groans and says "Those books *again*?!" These books have taught me so much: the importance of friends, how to do always do the right thing in the face of difficulty, and how important it is to live life to the fullest. I have grown up with the characters and grown to love them as if I know them personally; I've laughed, I've smiled, I've cried, and I've absolutely sobbed. With the end of Harry Potter, comes the end of my childhood and I don't know what I'll do with myself. These days I find the shortest of trailers or just the mention of the series enough to bring me to tears. I know however, that the series will never be over, not as long it lives in our hearts. It will only be over when (if I may paraphrase Dumbledore) no one in the world are loyal to them. They are my favorite books in the world, so beautifully written (that's saying a lot, as I've read more books than I can count). Harry Potter has made me into the person I am today. My friends say I am optimistic to the point of foolishness but it is because the Harry Potter series have taught me that no matter what happens you should never give up, no matter the odds that you are facing- like Harry and the others. I started reading the series since I was 7-8 and I waited desperately on my 11th birthday for my acceptance letter to Hogwartsv(needless to say, it never came). I just love the series so much and as much I've written, I've still not been able to express that. Words cannot express my love for it. It means everything to me.