User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4014421-20110720015107

Harry Potter is my past, my present, and my future. It's been my childhood and will be my adulthood. I have learnt so much from it. They are amazing role models, they show that throughout your life, it can be hard. I'm going to say my thank yous: Harry Potter: Thank you, for everything. Thank you for bearing the weight of the world on your shoulders. Thank you for showing me the importance of friendship and perseverance. Thank you for going on when you lost all faith. Thank you, in honor of the ones you lost. Thank you for everything you sacrificed. Hermione Granger: Thank you for teaching me the definition of friendship, (and everything else). Ron Weasley: Thank you for showing me the meaning of loyalty and always coming back. Draco Malfoy: Thank you for showing me the hardships of choosing between what is right and what is easy. Neville Longbottom: Thank you for your bravery in times or serious danger. Luna Lovegood: Thank you for never losing your faith, even when all hope seemed lost. Thank you for teaching me that it's okay to be different and I shouldn't let peoples opinions get to me. Severus Snape: Thank you for being the bravest man I ever knew. Thank you for showing me what people will do for love. Albus Dumbledore: Thank you for all your wisdom and the reminder that happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light. Narcissa Malfoy: Thank you for your love for your son and lying to protect him. Lord Voldemort: Thank you for unwittingly showing me the power of love. Lily Evans(Potter): Thank you for the love that saved us all. Molly Weasley: Thank you for treating me as your own child. Fred and George Weasley: Thank you for making me laugh even when I wanted to cry. Minerva Mcgonagall: Thank you for always sticking up for your students and always doing what is right. Sirius Black: Thank you for being the closet thing to a father he ever had. And thank you for teaching me the strength of friendship. Remus Lupin: Thank you for fighting to make a better world. Nymphadora Tonks(who prefers to be known by her surname only): Thank you for the wisdom and passion you showed that was beyond your age. Bellatrix Lestrange: Thank you for showing me the difference between healthy obsession and insanity. Thank you for remaining loyal to the very end. Percy Weasley: Thank you for coming through in the end. Dobby: Thank you for your courage and loyalty and for reminding me of the good in the world even in times of darkness. Thank you for being my friend. Rubeus Hagrid: Thank you for always being the friend he needed and for giving him love he never got before. Colin Creevey: Thank you for loving Harry as much as the rest of us. Arthur Weasley: Thank you for believing in the value of Muggles and for never falling into the typical ‘Pureblood’ mindset. Lucius Malfoy: Thank you for changing your mind in the end. James Potter: Thank you for your son and for protecting him even when you were gone. J.K. Rowling: Than you. Thank you for my childhood. Thank you for bringing me into the fantastic world that is Harry Potter. Thank you for inspiring me to read more than I ever thought I would. Thank you for the characters that have struggled along the way with me, but taught me and inspired me in the end. Thank you for showing me what it’s like for something that’s always been with you to come to an end, but without actually leaving. Thank you for creating something so beautiful, something so magical, that it will always be in my heart.

Thank you for helping me believe there's hope in the world. When I have children and they ask how I made it through hard times, I will give them the books to read and tell them I went to Hogwarts. The place I was accepted for what I was, The place I learnt everything, The place that I could escape to. At Hogwarts I felt like I had true friends, I felt like I could be free no matter what. Hogwarts was my home and always will be.