User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4168746-20110719085430

There are no words that could properly describe all that these books have taught me. It's so much more than a movie. I began reading the books when I was 9 years old. My aunt gave me the first one for Christmas. I had never heard of it and neither had any of my friends. She had bought the book because she was from a big city and all the kids there were reading them. Word had not gotten to my little town in Alabama just yet. So I read them, and soon all my friends started to as well. I can remember sitting outside at school on the steps being swept away by the magic. On my 11th birthday I sat outside waiting for an owl. Needless to say I'm still waiting haha. But really, that day I cried I wanted so badly to escape to be someone special. But, I didn't need to do that to be special. Harry, Ron and Hermione taught me that I can be brave and special no matter what people say. That I can make a difference in the world and that good will always win. Love conquers all. Friendship and Loyalty are life's gold. It taught me that people, friendship, and love are more important than power or money or anything like that. I am who I am today because of J.K. Rowling's "Children's Book". But, you see it is so much more than a children's book. It's everything. It honestly has taught me how to be a good person and to be proud of who I am. I grew with Harry and all of Hogwarts. Every year I read one of those books. When Harry left Hogwarts I left High School. It was like he was right there with me growing up all along. Hogwarts will always be there for me. There are no words to tell you how much these books have meant to me. I have known Harry for more than half of my life. So thank you J.K. Rowling for giving me this gift. Honestly it is the greatest one I could have ever been given. I would love to take my mother to Harry Potter World because she has stage 4 cancer. She has always wanted to go and has supported my love of Harry by taking me to midnight book releases throughout the years and reading the stories to me as I fell asleep. Please let me show her the magic.