User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4166199-20110718205409

To me, Harry Potter means staying up into the wee hours of the morning to finish reading the books in the series. It means picking up branches and scurrying around my house in a bathrobe, casting spells and desperately wishing to receive a Hogwarts acceptance letter. Whenever I would go to the cinema to view the absolutely brilliant films, I was overcome with emotion. Seeing the books I had poured over become a visual experience was fantastic. When reading about characters' deaths, and watching them in the theater, I felt like a part of me was lost, for I felt a very strong bond with many of the characters in the series. Harry Potter created an incredible world that served as a sanctuary for a child with a vivid imagination and dull reality. Most importantly, J.K. Rowling incorporated beautiful lessons of loyalty, love, courage, and selflessness in every single novel that she wrote. Harry Potter was my childhood, and to this day, still means so much to me.