User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4157999-20110717024653

Harry Potter means friendship, family, and knowledge to me. But then again, to say it means friendship is to be very vague because it so much more than that. When the first few books came out, I was just too young to start reading. The first I knew of Harry was when my older cousin received the first movie as a gift. I watched it with her and was completely and totally mesmerized.I was in second grade. I immediately started reading the books and had them finished very quickly. I was always smart for my age but even for me it was fast. Soon after I realized I loved reading so much more than before. I found out that a set of books could take me away from my parent's constant fighting and eventually their divorce. Of course then I had to go get the rest of the books at midnight as they were released and see the movies as soon as I possibly could. I moved after 4th grade and lost many of the friends I had made with Harry. I soon realized that I could find friends through the wonderful books and movies and those bonds are still lasting today.They allowed me to create relationships similar to those in the books, they gave me my own friends like Ron and Hermione. I think that I can credit Harry Potter with a multitude of friendships, closer relationships with my family that lives down the hall or a thousand miles away, and just general knowledge.