User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4129833-20110709015622

I never really fit in anywhere. I had no confidence. But through reading the Harry Potter books I have learned how to be proud of myself. I felt like an insufferable know it all a lot of my life, but Hermione shows me that it's okay to feel that way. I felt like a wierdo all of my life and it's really hard dealing with that but Luna has taught me it's okay to be different. I felt that I needed to prove my worth somehow or like I wasn't strong enough a lot of the time but Neville showed me that when you need to be strong, you will be. I identify with Harry so much in emotion and such. When I started reading Harry Potter (it was the first chapter book I ever read when I was in third grade) I wasn't thinking that it would become such a huge part of my life. Sitting on the steps in the over crowded theater, enthralled in what was going on on the screen-- I didn't know that November 16 would be the day that I was introduced to a world that I would get lost in time and time again when I couldn't handle the world I lived in. Now, thinking about the fact that I won't ever see a new Harry Potter film or read another book devastates me. It means that my childhood is well and truly over. No more of the easy days, no more of the new thrills. I grew up, and so did Harry. He was angst ridden when I was, he was falling for the opposite sec when I was. Harry and I are one. And the same goes for all the other Potterheads. I thank Tumblr for throwing me into a worldwide community of Potterheads where we aren't teased for liking Harry Potter and we aren't humbugged for being weird. Going to the Wonderful Wizarding World of Harry Potter is one last step I'll take and I cannot wait. I mean, I'll still have Pottermore whenever it's finished but I still... just can't say enough how I'll miss everything. So I have to say thank you, Jo Rowling. Thank you, The Big Seven (Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Matthew Lewis, Tom Felton, Evanna Lynch, and Bonnie Wright). Thank you Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Jason Isaacs, Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters, Helen McCrory, Alan Rickman, and the Phelps twins. Thank you, The Three David's and Steve Kloves. I really don't know where I'd be without every single one of you and I'm certain I wouldn't like to!