User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4170463-20110719172726

Harry Potter will forever be synonymous with friendship, community, and a good thing that for some odd reason had to end. I grew up with almost no friends because I didn't know how to connect with someone. I had bullies and no one to turn to, and then when I gave up, teachers started telling me I had a swiss cheese for a brain with holes that needed filling. But then I met some Potter nerds, just like me. And we started a harry potter club where he had ultra america's-obesity-problem-contributing feasts once a month, and we came to school once in a while, for the heck of it, with wands and snitches and sometimes we annoyed our teachers with big quill pens. And I started laughing and having so much fun every single day, because yes, not all our conversations were harry potter based (or still are) ,but Harry Potter brought us together. And then I started taking after Hermione. I realized the only reason why she's so smart is not because of some mystical entity living inside her brain that feeds of information and then farts it out into her brain cells so that magically she knows everything, but it's because every summer she reads ahead in the books. She actually works HARD for this gift. And so, naturally, I started studying. And then I got A's. All A's. And my teachers loved me, and now I dream of going to Stanford and becoming a doctor or a nutritionist or something along those lines. That would have never happended if Harry Potter hadn't taught me that anything is possible as long as you don't just wait around it for it to happen. I will miss Harry Potter. I can't come to terms with it's end. I can't tell you how many times I've watched the first movies just to trick myself into believing it's not over. But maybe one day, I'll notice that it really isn't. Harry Potter has created this huge land of nerd-dom. This single thing, this single series has brought so many people together, so many interesting people who would probably go to the moon just put a Gryffindor flag on it. How cool is that! Nothing will ever be as big as Harry Potter, because it wasn't just a good movie like Inception (which was amazing.) Harry Potter was and still is a world where every person will find help, if only they ask for it.