User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4170048-20110719152525

Harry Potter to me means the chance to "escape" from reality for a short time. You read about a boy who has known neglect since a small child. He escapes to this better life and finds out that everybody knows his name in this new world. A little part of us wishes that the same will occur to us. Our life is full of hardships often enough that we wish that there is a world outside of what we know that amazing things happen regularly. Throughout the series we grow up with Harry. We see his defining moments of his life, the good, and the bad. To us, Harry is our close friend and we wish to see him successful in the end because we see Harry in ourselves. To see Harry succeed is to see our self succeed.