User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4173137-20110720044834

These characters taught me so many things about myself. Luna Lovegood taught me that you can be different in a good way. Ron Weasley taught me that you don't have to be the brains of an operation to be important. Hermione Granger taught me that, even as a girl, you can be a warrior. Neville Longbottom taught me that bravery is something that we all have, we only need find it to use it. Sirius Black taught me that there are all kinds of family, and you can choose to believe in different things than your family does. Lily Potter taught me that love is worth dying for. Molly Weasley taught me that all mothers love their children, and will find themselves capable of things they'd never imagined when it's for their children. Narcissa Malfoy taught me that your family is important, even in the most dire of situations. Harry taught me that sometimes we're thrust into a position that we know nothing about, but we all have the ability to overcome it. The character that I related to the most though, was Draco Malfoy. Draco was born into a situation where he didn't get a choice. He could join the Death Eaters or die. Because of decisions that his family had made, he suffered immensely. He grew up thinking that everything his parents did was correct, and thinking that it was going to be so glamorous when he finally got to become a Death Eater alongside his father. He got there, and reality crashed down. He realized that the people he had always believe in had made the wrong decisions. Reality crashed down hard upon him. Throughout this though, he still loves his family. It's heartbreaking, and I will always be able to relate to that. He had to possibly admit that some of his parents views, some of his own adopted views even, weren't right. How hard would that have been for him? He'd never wanted to be the bad guy before, but he couldn't be the good guy either. The way he's forced between the two worlds is something that I feel is so strongly relate-able to many people, especially myself. The series as a whole, though? I cannot even imagine being able to express what it means to me with mere words. Harry Potter, as a whole, taught me that every person is a person. We do not know what caused them to become the way they were, or even who caused them to become that way. We can learn about that, but that doesn't mean that we know them. Every person is a person, and some people cannot be explained enough that others are able to comprehend who the person is. That's what I think Harry Potter means to me. Every person is a person, and what's more is that they have feelings. They all have events in the past that made them the into the person they became. We have all changed, and Harry Potter is about what changes us. Harry Potter is one of those things that has changed me. Sometime down the line, I'd like to look back and point out the things that ultimately shaped me for the person I am to become. I think that I'll be able to say that, oh yes, and in fourth grade I picked up the first book of a series that would change my life. Because it truly is life-changing. There are some books that you read, and you get a small message from them. Harry Potter is not one of those books. Harry Potter is one of those books where the message cannot sink in until days later. And even then, you still don't have the full message from it. Harry Potter has a message that keeps building and building in all of us, and we're never going to be able to outgrow that message. We're never going to be able to outgrow these books. The message the comes with all of the Harry Potter books and movies is always sinking in, always something that will never be completed. My life has been changed because of Harry Potter. There isn't much more I can say except that.