User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4171322-20110719203425

The wonderful and magical world of Harry Potter, has been much more then a story for me. Hogwarts was always a place I could go, when my everyday life would get too stressful. It seems that Harry Potter was always a part of my life. My mother reading them to me when I was child, re-reading them when I got older, it will always be the greatest story I have ever known. J.K Rowling gave me a childhood to be proud of. Going to movie premieres with my parents, playing all the video games and interactive computer games with my cousins. For once, I felt that I was united with so many people because of a book series. I never knew what books could do, until I grew with Harry James Potter. As he turned seventeen in the last book, as I was seventeen when I read it. I've grown with Harry. I feel like I will forever be best friends with The Boy Who Lived. He will always live inside my heart. I wanted to be a wizard so badly. When my Hogwarts letter didn't turn up when I was eleven, I was devastated. I remember crying, and denying everyone else's presents that whole day. But now I am just convinced that it got lost in the mail. I'm simply a wizard, surrounded by Muggles. Hogwarts School of Wtichcraft and Wizardry gave so many kids like me, a chance to be accepted, and not judged. A place where they felt they belonged. Harry Potter, and his friends, will always be there for me - whether I visit them with film or by page. Harry Potter lives on forever in the hearts of my generation. <3