User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4155677-20110716140740

As many people have already said, it's real for us. I'm not going to pretend I've had a hard life or was locked under the stairs, but for me Harry Potter was always an escape. I think it was this way for a lot of people which is why it is such a unique and magical experience. The readers of the series can all identify with each other. A lot of the media these days can be compared to similar things many years ago and it's easy to say that it's gone downhill. We can lament about how great it would have been to be alive for woodstock because nothing like that will ever happen again. But nothing like Harry Potter will happen again either. My generation grew up with it and i'm proud to say that one day I can look back and say "I was alive for Harry Potter". And through these many years I have learned to believe in magic.