User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4050580-20110713054513

Harry Potter to me is one of my earliest memories. When I was a young muggle I remember sitting on my mum's lap and watching Rosie O'Donell's talkshow with Richard Harris on that night and I remember looking at the front cover of The Goblet Of Fire and thinking "what is that about to eat that guy's (now I know it was Cedric's) head" crouching by the hedge. I went to lots of Harry Potter premiere parties and I even won a giant bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour beans once. I think that Harry Potter has affected my academic choices too because I'm taking a course of mythology and I wouldn't have been interested in myths at all if it hadn't been for J.K. She has done an amazing job on teaching everyone, not just  children about mythological creatures. It's true that unicorns do prefer to have women touch them than a man, and that the kappa will die if the indentation on their head has no water in it. I always think that whenever I'm having a bad day, a Harry Potter character is having a worse one. Like when Ron punched Draco, a lot worse. Or when Ron had to go into the acromantula lair, that trumps any bad day I'm having. It doesn't matter how many times I read the books, I will always love them dearly and they have given me some of the best memories of my life.