User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4147861-20110714192903

The Harry Potter series has been in my life since elementary school, I grew up with Harry and continued reading the books all the way through high school. The series was one of the first that I had ever read and when I was in elementary school I was not a very good reader and this made me self-conscious when I was told to read something in class. However, my eagerness to read in class and outside of class grew as I began reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. I grew up with the characters as many other people did my age; Harry was never my favorite character and I was crushed when I read the death of my personally favorite character: Severus Snape. These books gave me an outlet and sparked my imagination, I think this series is the highlight of our generation in popular literature and authors after J.K.Rowling have big shoes to fill.