User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-3253938-20110720022315

What Harry Potter means to me? Everything. I didn't discover it until the first movie came out in 2001. It was one of the most amazing movies I had ever seen and directed by my current hero, Chris Columbus. Without Harry Potter, I wouldn't have discovered him and watch his other films and dreamt of becoming a director. Without Harry Potter I wouldn't have got into reading, and eventually writing (novels, fanfiction, and screenplays). Harry Potter not only introduced me to things I never thought I'd love and wish to be someday, but it also brought incredible amounts of magic into my life that I would've never imagined. Harry Potter helped me find friends who also loved Harry as much as I did. It's how I became best friends with probably the most amazing person in my life. Harry Potter helped me come out of my shell and taught me many lessons. It made me laugh, gave me goosebumps, and it made me fall in love with the characters and bawl my eyes out when they died. I'm so attached to these characters, it's as if they're all real. When the series of books ended, I felt like everyone important to me was gone. Now the movies are at an end? I don't even know what I'm going to do. Scratch that. I know EXACTLY what I'm going to do. I'm going to follow the dreams that J.K. Rowling gave me. That Harry gave me me. That's what Harry Potter means to me. Everything.