User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4152621-20110715220946

I've literally grown up with Harry Potter. When I was 5 years old, I began to read the Harry Potter books. A lot of times I couldn't underestand some of the words...so one day my mom came home from work with an enormous Oxford Dictionary. Harry Potter's given me role models. Hermione is my twin sister. She's brilliant, everything I want to be. I was four when I saw the first movie, it scared me out of my wits, eventually I gathered my courage to try and read the books. The books were spell binding, once you were in, there was no putting the book down. The books broadened my mind, inspired me to try my hand at writing. And I just enojoyed them, they were so entertaining. They also made me feel all the emotions, good and bad. J.K Rowling created a story with heart. I cried the whole time reading the last book. I went to three midnight book openings and four midnight movies. Of course, I saw the movie last night at the midnight showing. I wept my heart out. It was heart breaking, like the end of a childhood fantasy. It was the sudden realization that I would never get an acceptance letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry Potter was an escape to a place where anything was possible, where good always triumphed over the bad. It made me believe in magic and the power of love and friendship. Anytime I felt lonely or bored, I wander over to my bookshelf and forget Twilight. I pick up any of my seven Harry Potter books. They're perfect and they mean the world to me, because I'll always have them. I have my very own portkeys that take me to a place where I'm not a just another muggle.