User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4158586-20110717061346

To me Harry Potter was an escape. Since third grade I was bullied for being out there and acting different, at night my escape was to this magical land where you went on a train to this magical world where moving pictures, out of the world candy, moving stairs, transfiguring teachers and a headmaster who always knew what was going on! Through the years Harry Potter became a part of me and then this year when I finally had to admit it was coming to an end I made it real. For a whole school year during our play, at night i'd copy down 20 spells from the Harry Potter Wiki Spell Book until i had my own spell book. After school and after rehearsal we'd get chopsticks from the cafeteria and duel in the hallways. I copied down Hogwarts Acceptance Letters and then painted the hogwarts emblem then send the letter to my friends houses just to surprise them. Harry Potter is my childhood and is also going to be something that I always carry with me. Some kids at my school, there childhood is about transformers or about Pokemon, but my life is and always will be filled with this magical world of escape for myself, which I still do, on bad days wip out my illuminating wand and practice the Lumos Maxima Spell just like Harry did under his covers when he was studying at hogwarts.