User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4154515-20110716070451

Harry Potter presented to me all my childhood fantasies and all my adult realities. It gave me the sense of belonging and close friends when I felt like neither were obtainable. I found the books in elementary when my imagination was still at it's peak. Where it became a fictional reality I couldn't escape... or more rather because I didn't want to. I grew up in the same time span that the characters were growing up. Their life lessons became more and more relevant each day and it helped me know I could over come anything that stood in my way. These are the stories and friends I have known to trust. When everyone else was against me and I wanted to run away, Hogwarts and all the crazy antics abundant with it were there for me. Even to this day, I'm 19 and a college student... I still comfortably and very naively believe in the magic I grew up with. The magic is that I will always have that comfort of the world of Harry Potter. I'll always be able to have my childhood and that curiousness of the world. Just like my name, that's one thing no one can take away from me. - Mischief Managed.