User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4152939-20110716003106

Upon begining to read the books, I highly anticipated my eleventh birthday, believing that I, like all those within Harry Potter, would recieve my letter inviting me to study at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and to become part of their world. My eleventh birthday came and went, and much to my dismay, I received no letter. Although the Harry Potter novels are fiction, the magical world within them will never cease to be real, for it is real and alive within me. I felt the deep bonds of friendship forming as I read, cried with the characters during times of pain and anguish and was happy when the characters were so.Harry Potter allowed me to immerse myself within a world so incredibly different to my own. With no more books being written, and the final film having just been released, I feel a strrong sense of loss. I will no longer feel the excitement which only the release of a new Harry Potter novel can create. No longer make trips to the cinema with my oldest friends to see the Harry Potter films on their opening night. To me, Harry Potter is my childhood, and now both have come to an end. However, when I wish to escape from reality, re-live my childhood, Harry Potter will always be there. Dependable, captivating, and as brilliant as ever.