User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4182638-20110721180427

Harry Potter means everything to me. To many people, it was their childhood. It was to me as well, but at the same time it was so much more. I had a really rough past and just moved to a new country when i first got into Harry Potter, 9 years ago. I was in 3rd grade, and now i am entering my last year of high school. And through all the years, and all the hard times, it was always Harry Potter that was there. While most people had their friends to be there for them when they needed it, friends to go out with to get their mind off of things, i didnt ever have really a close friend. My family was in a different country and they never bothered to keep up with me, i rarely heard from them. But i was never alone because I always had Harry Potter. Harry Potter to take my mind off of things, Harry Potter to be my escape. Its like my life long friend that i grew up with. Everytime something went wrong, I'd reread a Harry Potter book or rewatch a movie. And everytime i would start reading or watching, i'd forget everything. Everything around me would dissapear, i'd be totally lost in a world i wished to be a part of. And it never failed, i always felt happy in a short amount of time after starting to read or watch it. i always have a book handy with me or near by incase i needed it to escape from a bad situation. It's always there to cheer me up when i'm down, it's been the ONLY person or thing in life to never let me down. It is the biggest part of my life and i'd be a totally different person without it i would have gone my whole life with nowhere to turn.It got to the point where i feel like i am actually apart of the world. I feel like I know the characters personally as if they were real people in my life, and every death feels like a personal loss, like i really lost someone in my life because in a way, thats how it is because these books and movies HAVE been my life and losing the characters i learned to know and love so well, i cry and mourn as much as i do when i lose someone in real life. Ive been crying everyday since the end of Deathly Hallows part 2. But it doesn't matter that it's over. It will never be over as long as we still turn back to it, just like Dumbledore will never be really gone as long as those who remain are loyal to him. And I will always go back to Harry Potter, to reread the books and rewatch the movies for the rest of my life. It's just one of those things you never get tired of, because, it's not just a book or a movie. It's a way of life and so so much more.