User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-2221824-20110715154850

Back in third grade when I first opened The Sorcerer's Stone I could not have began to believe the impact that this series would have on my life. Just as Harry, Ron, and Hermione was growing up through the books, so was I. I like so many others of my generation grew up with the books and have bonded in a sense because of them. Harry Potter, both the books, and now later the movies have always allowed me a place to escape that is so magical yet so easily relate-able. I have learned quite a few lessons from the pages of J.K. Rowling's writing and I will never be able to fully express the appreciation that I have because of that. These books, this phenomena that is Harry Potter emits the same feelings and effects that Star Wars had for that generation, because this is our generation's Star Wars, and I am so thankful to be apart of it.