User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4148342-20110718053244

Harry Potter was a huge part of my childhood. Whenever I had a bad day at school, I would reread the books and know that the characters had been lonely, gone through hard times, and kept on going, and so I could too. Lining up, waiting anxiously for the latest installment of the series, are some of the fondest memories I have of being younger. Harry Potter started out as a bedtime story my parents read to me, but I learned how to read so I could finish it on my own. I grew to love that characters and think of them as my own imaginary friends, and I read of their adventures over and over. Jo Rowling has created a masterpiece that will live forever as a classic. Although it is so hard to say goodbye and July 15 was the end of an era, I am confident that future generations of muggles will grow to love Harry just as much as I did, continuing a legacy of love for reading and for a fantasy world that I often dreamed of escaping to.