User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4141814-20110713042838

I've been through so many trying times in my 19 years, and I'm still going to therapy for most of them. The first book came out when I was five years old, I picked it up and my mom read it to me every night for a week. We both anxiously awaited the arrival of the next books, something that we really bonded over for the next decade. Harry Potter has always been my go to series, and they're the reason I'm still alive. It has become engrained in who I am with every word I've read, and they've helped me through so many different stages in my life. High school graduation, moving out of the city for college, multiple surgeries, the loss of all my friends from high school, my grandfather's death, and a couple of court trials, wherein I was the victim. I've grown up and matured along with this trio of wizards, and when I read the books it became a quartet. I was there with them, I was part of their adventures, and I grew a great fondness and deep personal connection with the characters. I mourned every death long after I put the book down, and the movies have always been a resurgence of my love that's always been in place in my heart. Harry Potter has literally become my identity, because I've depended on it so heavily throughout my life.