User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4141321-20110713011317

If only I could fly on my own witchy broom through the dusky sky and fling an ashy cloud behind me, swirling letters large enough to be seen for miles and miles. Only then would my proclamation of love barely touch a devotion that bursts at the seams of infinity. Reading the Sorcerer's Stone in the two weeks after my almost twelve-year-old son's birth was my lifeline during a bout of post partum depression, and even while locked in darkness, I managed to forge an unbreakable bond with both my son and these books. An escape into the dream of magic and conquering love, that first volume brought my true spirit to light with every word, never allowing me to be lost in the emptiness lurking nearby. Since then, I have been rather a fanatic, reading each book the moment it was available and exuberantly waiting in hours-long lines for each midnight movie premier. In fact, I read the last book in one sitting, not leaving my office chair for hours and giving my husband a bit of an "oh, my gosh, my wife's a nutter" scare. My family, of course, has been immersed in the wizarding world, and I have even written a book which is posted on two Harry Potter fan fiction sites. The obsession doesn't stop there, however. The four walls of my son's room are the four colors of Hogwarts houses, and the both of us tow Slytherin backpacks to school each day. My classroom is strewn with Harry Potter everything, projecting my love onto the next generation of readers. Even my library at home is filled with Harry Potter trinkets, and our kitchen cups display the houses of Hogwarts. I will be seeing the Harry Potter museum exhibit for the second time in August, and I will also be watching Daniel Radcliffe in How to Succeed in Business on Broadway. To say that I wish the world of Harry Potter was real and we could live there is the understatement of all time. Heaven will not even be Heaven if I die and find no Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, Godric's Hollow, or Diagon Alley there. Perhaps there are thousands upon thousands of fans who hold the Harry Potter books and movies as dearly as I do, but considering the fact that I would live in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal if I could, I had to throw my name in the goblet. Here's hoping that the winner, no matter who it is, will have a glorious experience, and if it isn't me, please have a butterbeer on my behalf.