User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4151199-20110715174055

What Harry Potter means to me. To me Harry Potter is a way of reliving my childhood years. The stories are so detailed and they just have something real and magical at the same time. As an adult you know that magic isn't real but J.K. Rowling makes you really question that. I have often imagined Rowling gone missing because somebody from the ministry of magic came took her away to Azkaban for telling all of the muggles about their world.She describes every last detail so it is so easy to jump into that world. I used to read alot when i was younger and then stopped after i went into jr high because of the workload. I saw the movies all around 3 yrs ago, so i only saw the half blood prince and so on in the theatres. After seeing the half blood prince i bought all of the books. I couldn't stop reading them. My husband got so jealous of the amount of time i was spending reading the books. I read the entire series in 3 weeks. When i wasn't reading i was on Harry Potter Wiki learning more about the world of Harry Potter. It isn't just the stories that are addicting to me. The stories bring back the innocence of childhood when good always defeats evil irregardless of the odds. The stories teach the kind of friendship that eveyone wants to have and the school that everyone would want to go to. The culture of the wzard world is my favorite part. It is very similar to our world in many ways that aren't obvious but it is almost like Rowling snuck it into the book. Making subtle similarities to our world, I think is what makes the books seem so real because it isn't like a once upon a time story that only good things happen and nothing bad ever happens. Alot of bad stuff happens in these stories just like in real life, you just have more faith that it will all be okay in the end if you do the right thing. The thing that makes this world seem so much better than our is all of the small details that they have such as riding a broom or eating in a magical great hall. Even their pictures move' you just wish that you could experience all of that fun. The way that Rowling describes every little detail of their world allows you to really believe it and it is such wonderful place that you cant help but want to be there. Especially if you are having a bad day. It is somewhere that you can escape from your life and live a magical one where you don't hav to worryy about bills or money or even your job. It is almost like a dream. The series is so mesmerizing that when you are reading te stories its almost like Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when Harry is Reading Tom Riddles diary and gets sucked in. It is so easy to get sucked in to the stories. I am glad that i saw the first couple movies first because that gave me images of all of the characters and what the town looks like and after that i was able to imagine all of the other details myself and even imagine exactly how each character would say everything while reading the dialogue. If i imagined how all of the characters and everything looked myself it wouldn't seem as real to me because i would know that is my own imagination, and i could never imagine anything as spectacular as the movies with the special effects and such. i don't really think that many people could except maybe Rowling because if you could you would most likely go into directing or something. people say that reading the books first is better than seeing the movies first. That has its truths because there are certain things that are in the books but not the movies and it kind of ruins the suprise if you have already seen the movie you know the outcome. This series is meant to take you into another world and it is just so much more magical watching the movies first rather than reading the books. Watching the movies is more like watching rowlings imagination, i think that she has the most vivid imagination of anyone ever, davinci, micaelangelo, etc. Rowling has forced me to take up reading with her addicting series and it almost seems unfair because people became obsessed with this world and then the series eventually stops and you have to leave the world. I would continue reading her books forever if she would continue writing them. I completely understand that she doesn't want to continue the series because it might get dull or lose its appeal after a while( i dont think that i could ever stop liking it, especially with her imagination) and I would feel the same way, but it becomes your favorite place to be after a while, sort of your getaway place and its almost as if you cant go there anymore and you have to just rely on your memories(the books you have already read) to go back. The Harry Potter series is very bittersweet for this reason. Harry potter is not only an amazing story to read, its an amazing story to live.