User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4137655-20110712001841

What a simple question, and yet i've never had a harder time trying to answer it. How do you explain... something that makes you feel and believe in so much? It might be uncomfortable -- but it's still easier to explain why you love, for instance, your family, friends, etc. "I love them because they have done ____, Because they ARE ____." What JKR has done for these books though -- transcends anything you could... try to explain. Harry Potter and the world JKR created means believing in... good. Believing in the good in this world that overcomes evil. Believing that those who have passed are always with you. Believing that there are worse things than death in life -- and that your life is for a purpose. Believing that the power of love rules supreme, and that it wins the hand in the end. Believing that life is this collective experience you share with everyone around you -- and that win or lose... you're with them 'til the end. And THAT is the kind of love that can defeat anything that comes against you. JKR is amazing, because she managed to build a completely imagined world -- that is so big and wonderful that it cannot be contained only in an imaginary land. You read these pages and they come alive... you see them so clearly -- you feel like you are playing in Hogsmeade, walking in Hogwarts, that you're there on Platform 9 + 3/4. You connect with it and relate to it here... in this life. And it moves and touches you. Moves you to want to be part of something bigger. Moves you to look beyond yourself. To fight for the things you love in this life. Moves you to... believe. Have faith. Take heart. And stay strong... because there's something amazing on the other side. And really...what's more magical that that. --sarahthetran