User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4181829-20110721134348

Harry Potter to me means things like “loyalty”, “love”, “companionship”, “friendship”, and a never ending childhood. Harry Potter is someone who definitely made the world a better place. To me, Harry Potter, and the entire wizarding world, is something that was there when I needed it. I have to admit I wasn’t always the biggest Harry Potter fan. My friends had been reading the books before even the first movie came out. I never really picked it up and read it, but I went to see the first movie with my friends. I remember the movie came out in November of 2001. I was in the second grade, yet kids in my class we’re reading what seemed to be an advanced book for a second grader, but a lot of my friends were reading it. When I went to see the movie, I was instantly hooked I craved to be a part of the wolrd of Harry Potter. Harry Potter came along when I really needed him. I was getting bullied and teased in school sometimes because my mom was in a wheelchair, and there were nights where I would come home crying. I bought the first few Harry Potter books after that first movie experience (I was in the second grade so it took me a while to read them, but I loved every minute of it) I would come home and sit on my bed with a Harry Potter book and read for hours. I’ve been Hermione for Halloween, I’ve pretended to be wizards with my friends when I was younger (our dream was to build our own Harry Potter clubhouse, but we we’re to young to build it ourselves, but we tried). Harry Potter always took the sadness away, or if I was having a bad day, always made it better. He’s someone that myself, and billions of other people have grown up to adore. He helped me through tough times when I was younger, and is still apart of my life now. I have re-read the series because, who can ever get tired of Harry’s adventures? There’s always something new to imagine, every time you read them. Harry Potter is something that is still going to be a part of people generations to come. I know that when I’m older, and I have children that they are going to be introduced to the world of Harry Potter with hope that it will bring them as much happiness as it has brought me.