User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4151992-20110715192807

When I was a little girl moving around the US because my dad's job never stayed in one place, my only friends were my classmates at Hogwarts. I only looked forward to adventuring once again with Harry, Hermione, and Ron. Fast forward to much later, when me and my real-life friends are sitting in a dark movie theater, anxiously awaiting that familiar little eight-note song that we've come to instinctively apply to the movies. And at the end of the movie, at the end of that entire era, I can only sit and think about how much the series has changed me. That love never faded away, and it is still as strong as ever. Even though I've grown up, even though I'm not 11 and crying because I never got my Hogwarts acceptance letter, even though I never pretend to be a wizard anymore (in public...), and even though I'm going off to hopefully to make my own adventure, I will never forget what those books helped me through. I will never forget that the series means friendship and confidence. I'll never forget it means hope.