User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4162131-20110718012419

"What Harry Potter means to me?" How can I sum up the world? Harry Potter means everything to me. Ten years ago, I was a shy five year old and my mother picked up the movie for me to watch on a car ride. It was just a movie she thought I would enjoy. That movie, that beautiful, amazing movie changed my life. I can re-call every every moment that I went to go see the movies. And it wasn't until the summer of 2007, that I actually picked up the first book. I was never a reader. I could never get through a book. But, that first book, written the year after I was born, changed my life. I finished it in three days. I finished the entire series on September 30, 2008. I was a new reader, and a slow one at that. But, by the time I reacher the fourth book, I became faster. Harry was doing things that I never imagined could be done. The way Jo Rowling was writing, just made me want to read more and more. I fell so in love with Harry, that I couldn't put the books down. I remeber finishing the sixth book, and being afraid to open the seventh. I had no idea what was going to happen to Harry. I knew he would live somehow, he just had to. I finished in two days. I was crying when I closed that book. Crying. I was so upset, yet so happy. I never wanted my comfort, my clutch, my best friends, to end. That is who they had become. If I wasn't at school, or doing homework, with my friends, I was at Hogwarts. I was in those rooms learning magic. I saw the last movie at midnight, and when it was over, it all struck me. Nothing will ever be new again. But, that's okay. Ten years, I have been watching and reading Harry Potter. I am now fifteen, and just as in love with Harry as I was when I first saw him swallow that flying gold ball. To win this trip, would be the world to me. Because Harry Potter is my world. And his story will be with me far longer then ninteen years. If I could thank Jo, I would be lost at words. But somehow, I would tell her how Harry got me through everything. And he won't be leaving my shelves, because I am not going anywhere without him. Who says their childhood is over? As long as these stories remain, a little bit of childhood can remain as well. Thank You :)