User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4160243-20110717161019

What does Harry Potter mean to me? I cannot possibly, or accurately, describe the full extent of what Harry Potter means to me in one, simple comment. It took me a whole, massive LJ post to properly convey just what Harry Potter has meant to me, my childhood, my tween and teen years, and even what it has come to mean to me as an adult and what it will continue to mean for me in the future. The post can be read here: http://lilyginnyblack.livejournal.com/3700.html, but taking a part from that, the part that I feel conveys what Harry Potter means to me the most, I leave this:

I got on the Hogwarts express, heading for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizarding, when I was a child still in elementary school, and I am now getting off it as a twenty-one year old adult woman entering her senior year of college.

Harry has been with me through all of my personal happenings in life and he has been with me through major, life changing events in what will now become history.

Harry will continue to stay with me as I venture further into my adulthood and eventually into my middle ages and even to when I am an elderly woman unable to properly hear or see anything anymore. I would vouch now to say that he will be with me until my deathbed, when I will find myself at Kings Cross Station, ready to “catch a train” as Dumbledore had so nicely and elegantly put, it knowing that Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, all the Weasleys, all the Hogwarts students and staff, the Marauders and Lily, all of those names that were even just mentioned in passing, and even the bad guys such as Voldemort and Bellatrix and the Malfoys with their albino peacocks, were with me basically my whole life.

And I will be glad to finally part with them all then because, by then, all of my mischief will have been managed and I will simply be departing on the next great adventure in life.

The Harry Potter series is not simply just a book series or a box-office-blockbuster-movie franchise: it is a living and breathing entity that was magically brought to life through Ms. Rowling, through the people who put their hearts and souls into creating the movies, and through the fans who have been with Harry until the very end. And Harry Potter will continue to live on, so long as there are those who believe in the Boy-Who-Lived.