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" What does Harry Potter mean to you?"

I remember the first time I saw a Harry Potter movie. It was on a trip from my uncle's house back to my home in Pennsylvania. Even though I at first wanted nothing to do with it, it only took 10 minutes for me to be stunned. I was finally exposed to a fantastic, unique Wizarding World, and I begged for more. Soon, my mom bought the Harry Potter boxed set, containing the entire series (six books at the time) from the Schoolastic Book Fair in my Elementary School. I have yet to read all of them, but the ones I have read (Years 1- 4) are enough to keep me going. I loved visiting this unusual world of magic, a world that seemed too real to be in captivity of mere pages. I loved visiting Hogwarts, uncovering more clues to the Chamber of Secrets, or whom really betrayed Harry's parents. I loved to see the magic, and everything so unique and interesting about the Wizarding World that makes the Harry Potter series what it is. I took a lot from this series, from its morals, how Voldemort and other dark wizards never really triumphed. Every summer, the one movie I'd be sure to see was that year's Harry Potter.

A lot has changed since I first discovered "The Boy Who Lived". I am now about to enter 7th grade, my uncle has gotten married and lives in Australia, my friends have come and gone, pets have died, and I am becoming more adult every second. But one of few things that have never changed was the world of Harry Potter. I have grown up with this series, and now I am about Harry's age when he entered Hogwarts, and this series has had people doing everything I wish I could do. That is what has driven me on to the very end. Even if the series did end, and Pottermore will be out soon, Harry Potter still lives within us as a courageous wizard. And even if I can't go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, I can allways visit it by re-visiting the books. Thank you, J.K. Rowling, for changing my and millions of people's lives with your fantastic imagination.