User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4132060-20110709224053

Hm... Well, I used to read Baby Sitter club, because they were so short and I was scared of reading big books, which meant basically any and all EPIC fantasy titles, I hated even the sight of a thick book, but I picked up my neighbor's copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and seen it had... PICTURES at every chapter start, Which was pretty cool, because I liked pictures. So anyway, I went to the library because I'd heard that's where I could find the first book, I was super excited to get started on looking at the pictures in that book too, but then I read a couple of the pages, and a couple more... and more.. and couldn't put it down, it was great. The Harry Potter series is what spurred me into reading more, and it means a lot to me because of that. I had a reason to get excited about reading big books. Even when my dad banned the books from our house, I still snuck them in and hid them under my couch cushion just so I could read them late into the night. I couldn't wait for the next book, so I borrowed my friend's copies and read those, then I seen they were making a movie out of the books, and I was like "....ahwhuuuuuut?!" So I had to see it. I ended up seeing it on DVD, the first one anyway... then I went and seen the second one in theaters (telling my dad I was going to see Ice Age hah.) and boy, was that movie great. Yep. I love Harry Potter because it got me into reading in a big way, I'll always appreciate the series, as my first big books.