User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4142264-20110713091424

You can look at Harry Potter from many different stand points. From a religious view point you can see Harry as a "Jesus Character" and Voldemort as a "Devil Character". It's good vs evil. This is what makes a good book first of all.

I am currently 19 years old and I have a very special story to tell you what Harry Potter means to me. The summer of 1999 I moved away from my friends and everything I knew into a new town and area. I was like Harry in a way when he went to Hogwarts. Like him I had to find a new path and learn the good kids from the bad. There was a Draco Malfoy character for me there who I have not once become friends with. I did not know it at the time but I could really connect with Harry.

My reading level was not all that good and the next summer when the 4th book came out I wanted to find out what everyone was talking about. So my mom had the first three books in a set already and started reading them to me at night. We had our own special "Reading Corner" and we would drink tea with it. For me it was a magical time. My home life was not all that good so at night getting to escape into Harry's life was the best thing for me. As the books came out my mom and I would renew our tradition of her reading the books to me and when the movies came out we would go watch them together.

It has been a truly magical time growing up with Harry, Ron, and Hermione in my mind. Harry Potter has meant so much to me. I had Hogwarts as a place to escape to in my mind when ever I have wanted and now this theme park let's people get a look at the world I have escaped to so much in my own imagination's time and space.

To sum up Harry Potter for me I have to say it has been a fun road followed and I plan on someday when I have kids, giving them the same magical adventure I had with the books and movies.