User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4132616-20110710033336

Harry Potter means so much to my family. It all began for us when my daughter was in kindergarten and I picked up the Sorcerer's Stone at her school book-fair. We began to read it together before bed everynight and it soon turned into an amazing opportunity for our family to love books together. When each new book was released we got it on the first day and spent every night after reading it together. I loved the books so much that it was difficult for me not to read ahead, but it meant so much to my kids that we read them together that I couldn't ruin it for them. The kids are 15 and 14 now, and as they got older we would get multiple books so we could all read them. We laughed and cried together as a family because of these books. My children and I had meaningful discussions about bravery, friendship, cowardice and right from wrong from events that happened in these amazing books. The four of us go to every movie together as a family and we look so forward to it for months. I guess Harry Potter has meant more to me than I can put into words. Some of the best memories in the lives of our family have stemmed from reading these amazing stories. Harry Potter means that millions of families, adults and kids from all over the world put down the tv remote, video games and cell phones and READ. J.K. Rowling has brought the world together not through reality television or technology, but by turning the pages of a book. What an amazing accomplishment.