User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4187224-20110722151538

Harry Potter has always more than just a series to me and as it came to a close I've reflected on that a lot. I was only 6 years old when the first movie came out, but I remember my parents taking me to see it. It was one of the first movies I remember going to the theater to see it. That night my dad and I sat in my bed reading the first book. Through the years it was more than anything something that meant a lot too me and my dad, later as my little sister started to like the series she joined in. There were the little things like going to see the movies with him, or him bringing me home a copy of the book for my collection from the used bookstore he worked at. I believe I currently own three POA's and it wasn't even one of my favorites in the series. Then there was my first midnight showing (Order of the Phoenix) and going to get Deathly Hallows at midnight a few weeks later. That was the summer I read the series fully, I was in the fifth grade so I had only read the first three before hand as they had gotten too long for me. My dad died a few months ago, around the same time as DH part one. It was weird not going to midnight with him for the last two, as it had become a tradition for us. It's weird not talking about the plot or explaining to him the differences between the movie and the book. I went to Wizarding world in April, and loved it. That's why I'm entering, if I do win I would love to go again to be in that magical world again, because I know he would have loved it too.