User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4145649-20110714043848

Harry Potter means to me an escape, a dream world, a lifelong journey, but most of all it means the opening of a new love... a love of reading. Simply put, I am a struggling reader. I have profound reading comprehension problems but the Harry Potter series opened the world of Reading up to me. Before I hated reading - reading for school, work, and even leisure was not anything I would associate with. Now with J.K.'s incredible tale I have found a deeper respect and love for Reading. I experiment much more with Reading than I ever have or would have without the Harry Potter series. My wife has embraced my love of Harry Potter and has become a Harry Potter-fanatic as well. We own all the movies, multiple sets of the books, all of the video games, many of board games, and even have a great deal of Harry Potter items throughout our whole house. So much so that many people question our sanity. :)  But my wife is probably the only one that can truly know the impact HP has meant to my life.

Harry Potter means a more creative world of imagination. A new world of dreams, one that we plan to happily share with our two-year son. Hey, my wife and I partially give credit to the HP series for giving me the strength and confidence to go back to school and get my master's degree.

Simply put, Harry Potter means the world to me and my family!! Long live Harry Potter and thank you J.K. Rowling!