User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4149331-20110715042406

What does harry potter mean to me? When i grew up, i grew up not with just the harry potter movies but with the books. I lived with my father and (well that was unpleasant and bad) the harry potter books are really all that kept me out of the real world and into another. When i was in a bad time, i would open up any one of the harry potter books i had at the time and would start reading them. The adventure, excitmeant, happyness (and some sadness), thrilling adventures and story lines in the books kept me going. Harry potter actually inspired me in many ways to have joined the united states army. Because some of the good messages J.K rowling stuck into her books. Like the message of friendship, having something worth fighting for, and always having someone to have your back in the hardest of times, and thats exactly what the army has given me so far! I have grown up with harry potter in the books and movies, seen them both grow as i have grown. Harry potter has given me friends not to mention. I can talk to so many people and have awesome fun conversations about things in the book, the movies, or just ideas, and some of the time the friends i meet in love with harry potter love other things that i love, which makes it all the more awesome to have met them. I buy every book the day it comes out and i read them untill i am finished. I go to every midnight showing of harry potter (as i am doing so tonight) when ever the movies come out. My dream when it comes to harry potter is to go to the harry potter theme park and be in the land that i grew up in, in my imagination for years beyond years, from a little 8 year old to now a almost 21 year old. To be in the land that kept me happy in the hardest of times in my child hood, and to see what i have grown up with would be amazing. And to go there before i most likely get deployed some time in my military career would be magnificant!! I've also not to mention love to write and read alot more now because of those books! And i am now currently writing my own novel! But to end this comment i would love to say harry potter, thank you for being in this world and making me a happier person!! goodluck to the winner if i am not chosed and have a fricking blast! =] and have a magical week! because thats the only way to go with harry potter!