User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4140538-20110712201225

I was going to just create a tweet to describe Harry Potter, but it's impossible for me to define Harry Potter in 125 characters. Heck it's almost impossible for me to describe what Harry Potter means to me. The series has been a big part of my life, and is my entire childhood.

I started reading when I was 9 years-old in 1999 after coming across the first three books in my school library. From the moment I read the first few page of Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone I fell in love. I found myself unable to put the book down, and when it came to an end I immediately rushed back to the library for the next and the next. I borrowed the fourth in the series, Goblet of Fire, from a friend who owned a box set of all four books, and when Order of the Pheonix was released in America my parents stood in line at our local Barnes and Noble for three hours to purchase the best surprise a kid could ask for - All five of the Harry Potter books! It couldn't end there! There had to be more to it! Harry Potter couldn't come to an end, and thankfully it didn't J.K. Rowling amazed us all once again in 2005 and then again in 2007, and in the midst of waiting for the release of Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows I must have reread the first five years at least ten times a piece.

Now at 21 years-old I am sharing the amazing expierence of soaring through the air on a broom, the excitement of waving your first wand, the rush of bringing Voldemort to his rightful place (the bottom of the totem pole) with the two boys (ages 7 and 10) that I take care of. If it weren't for Harry Potter I would have never found my own imagination, never had played endless hours of "Quidditch" with my friends while riding around in my backyard on brooms we found in my dad's garage, and certainly wouldn't be able to share the awesomeness with the boys I am a nanny for.

After all that rambling, all I've wanted to say is Harry Potter is my childhood and adulthood. It will forever be a part of my life, and I couldn't be more grateful to J.K. Rowling for bringing it into this Muggle's life.