User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4151540-20110715175456

Harry Potter means a great deal to me. I started reading the books when I was a child and they have been a part of my life ever since. The novels are not simply about magic and witches and wizards; they are about defeating evil, standing up for what is right, never giving up, and showing your true colors. Each main character in the novel, to me, represents a different character trait or situation. Harry is the boy who lived and never stopped fighting, Ron is the boy who always came back and represents loyalty, Hermione is the brightest witch of her age and represents cleverness and rationality, Neville is the boy who stands up for what he knows is right, Draco is the boy who had to make the difficult choices between what is right and what is easy, Ginny is the girl who taught us to seek out our fears and defeat them, Luna is the girl who always believed and taught us how to embrace ourselves, Severus is the man who died for love and Sirius the man who died for friendship, and Dumbledore is the man who embraced his future and sacrificed himself for others. When one reads the novels, they are not only escaping into a world of imagination and wonder, they are subtly being taught about life and what is right. J.K. Rowling is a brilliant author, and she laced the book with simple quotes and meanings that are just as applicable in our world as they are in the wizarding world. What does Harry Potter mean to me? It is fun, imaginative, wonderful, mysterious, troublesome, and somehow always perfect. It means everything.