User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4152897-20110715232917

What Harry Potter means to me .... pure magic. Harry Potter opens up a magical world to kids of all ages. I am mom to 3 boys and this story has given me something to share with my children ... both in the lessons learned throughout Harry's adventures and in a developing passion for reading. I just read an interview with Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom) where he says that the message Neville conveys "was that you can have any kind of disadvantage at the start of your life and it doesn't define you. You can still go on to be whoever you want to be. As long as you have friends around you and you have a belief in doing the right thing, you can go on to be a hero. It doesn't matter what humble beginnings you came from." This is exactly why I love these stories. Whether the lesson comes from fact or fiction, all children need to know that they can be anything they want to be ... no matter what. So many of the Harry Potter characters push on through insurmountable odds. The hope, inspiration and magic that the Harry Potter series has provided will continue in the hearts of its fans forever.