User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4160372-20110717165026

Harry Potter means my family to me. It's brought us all closer together. When my sisters and I were younger, we used to always play Harry Potter wherever we were--instead of fighting with each other. My mother and I used to read the books together, and when she left when I was 15, Harry Potter was still there for me when my mom wasn't. The night she left us, and my sisters slept in their own beds for the first time in years, I went into their room and started reading Harry Potter 5 to them (it was right before the fifth movie came out) complete with voices and sound effects. We went through the whole series--books 5, then 4, then 3, then 6, then 7, then 2, and then 1. Even my dad and my dogs came into the room to listen and we were all together as a family even though my mom wasn't there, and wouldn't be there anymore.

Harry Potter also means more, and less to me than that. It means hours of fun playing Harry Potter with my sisters, or calming down after a fight by lying on my bed reading a Harry Potter book. It means a wildly thrilling roller coaster adventure the first time a new book came out to read, and new friendships that you thought could never be, and a secret connection with hundreds of other people in a movie theater as we laughed or screamed as one. It means a happy, talkative party every time there's a Harry Potter moviethon on TV, and the inspirational story of a writer who claimed success beyond her wildest dreams. But most of all, it's the story of a boy who didn't know he was special--and found out that he, like everyone, was special all along. :)