User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4129925-20110709022658

I have always loved fantasy and magic and yet I didn't get into the Harry Potter books at the beginning and I couldn't believe what I had missed out on when I did start to read the books and realize how amazing they really are. I wasn't able to go to many of the parties at bookstores when people were waiting for the next release but to make up for it all I threw a huge party for my cousins birthday as she loves Harry Potter also. I decorated an entire gym with everything from an owlery, a potions classroom, a library, and a gryffindor common room. We had a honeydukes with chocolate frogs inside chocolate frog boxes I designed. I made a monster book of monsters for the library and made a quiz which included a matching game where you had to match covers of the first Harry Potter book from all different languages to the country they belonged to. We were expecting over 30 people but only 8 showed up. I was a little saddened but I still enjoyed myself. I got all dressed up for the first part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and was the only one dressed up in the theater. For me Harry Potter is a way to express my creativity and explore what things I can create. I may be seen as one of those crazy fans that gets into the details but it's one of the ways I have fun.