User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4188757-20110722223301

Harry Potter means a lot to me actually. While I wasn't a child when I got into the series, it was a constant companion and stress reducer while I was in college. Being Learning Disabled, I spent more time in a community college then most people spend in high school through university. I was there for 10 years. No one thought I would graduate, and hearing that day in and day out from the people around me started to bog me down. Most books don't get me emotionally invested enough to tune everything out. When I was doing my studies and my mind would wander into the dark about my chances of success, it was Harry Potter characters like Neville that reminded me that I wasn't alone in my struggles and that if I kept at it I'd be fine. Then the more literal sense. I would literally be at the college from 1-4 hours a day just waiting between classes. Those hours were spent curled up with the Harry Potter books submerging myself into the wizarding world for a time. Interestingly enough it also assisted in some of my English reports. While everyone did the easy assignments (Like the most obvious themes of a book (none of which were Harry Potter) ) It was while reading the Harry Potter books that I'd get my ideas for my reports. I really owe the wizarding world a lot. It would whisk me away for a time and free up my mind to let things come to me in due course. I suspect that I would not have been nearly as successful if I didn't have the Harry Potter books to pull me in and center me.