User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4142962-20110713144114

I started reading these books in first grade, and I am now sixteen. This series is nothing short of my childhood. I have based all of my morals upon this series, knowing not always exactly right from wrong, but sometimes what's worth getting in trouble for and what's not. I've realized that I've taken a bit of each character with me from the re-reading of each book multiple times. Firstly, hermione's intelect and love of reading, Harry's fierce desire for justice. Ron's awkwardness (and hate of spiders), I was able to tell my friends when i didn't approve of what they did because of Neville, I became more comfortable with my spaciness because of Luna, my micheviousness came straight from the twins, and so on and so forth. This isn't just a set of books, this is me, turned into a story. I cried on my eleventh birthday when I didn't get my letter (though technically it was already a month into term) and No matter how many times I watch the movies or read the books I cry at every happy ending and every death because although I do have a life and friends these characters will always be there teaching me and telling me there IS something worth fighting for.