User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4153300-20110716011648

I, like many others, have grown up with Harry and his friends. Every book I read, Harry and his peers were the same age as I was so I learned through them and with them some life lessons. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were the friends I wanted to surround myself with and in this way I did surround myself with positive people. Harry's teachers and mentors also became my mentors. They were people I could look up to and get advice from when there were no other adult figures that I trusted my feelings with. I became obsessed with the books (and later movies) and never missed a midnight book release or midnight showing of a movie. Reading these books is an escape for me now, though I can still learn so much from them. If Harry Potter was not in my life, I don't think I would have grown to be the same person and I am so thankful of what these books have given to me.