User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4134553-20110710230023

(I have permission from my parents to enter)   Harry Potter has impacted not just my life, but my family’s as well. My mother, sister, and I started reading the Harry Potter books together when I was only six. We instantly fell in love with the books! My grandfather started reading them, and he too fell in love with them! Since then we always have Harry Potter in our conversations. It helped us become closer and bond as a family. Harry Potter means so much to us. It means a break from reality. I pretend I have magical powers sometimes, or sometimes I re-read the books and lose myself in the world of Hogwarts and magical beings. I imagine what nargles, threastles, blast-ended skrewts, and three-headed dogs look like. I’ve even asked myself, “If I were a wizard, I wonder what job I would have, what house I would be sorted into, what would I get my OWL’s and NEWT’s in, and what would my wand look like?” Harry Potter has taught me to believe in magic. It has taught me that something’s are unexplainable, and the only answer to those questions is magic; from everything of the ability to love, to something extraordinary and unusual happening in your life. It has also taught me to have a passion for reading. I never used to read, but since Harry Potter, I have probably read at least one hundred books for fun. I even got so inspired, I started writing books myself. Before I started writing, I never fully understood how amazing J.K. Rowling’s mind is. To create such a wondrous world and amazing characters is truly a God given talent. I am probably the biggest fan out there. My sister and I sat next to each other on different computers, and for two days in a row, we sent in entry forms to win a trip to the New York City premiere. We didn’t win, but we are still entering contest after contest after contest. If that doesn’t show a number one fan, I don’t know what does. We also have had Harry Potter parties, a whole room just of Harry Potter décor, Harry Potter Halloween costumes, and we even purchase hundreds of dollars’ worth of merchandise on Warner Brothers Shop. For one of our Harry Potter parties, we spent hours making Butterbeer, Cockroach Clusters, Licorice Wands, Pumpkin Juice, Cauldron Cakes, Acid Pops, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, and Treacle Tart! It was one the best times of my life; we even put dry ice in the drinks to make it look as if they were a potion! I have lived with Harry Potter for nine years, and I plan on continuing that growth and sharing it with my children and grandchildren. If I could win the tickets, I would love to see the look of ecstasy on my 70 year old grandfather’s face when I tell him I would take him with me! Harry Potter really does mean the world to my family and I. “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Albus Dumbledore Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows).