User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4130088-20110709041340

Harry Potter is my childhood. It is the anticipation of waiting for every book in the mail. It is the doubt I had when they announced they were making the first Harry Potter movie. It is knowing none of my friends would be doing anything the first few days after each book came out. It is sharing one copy and reading it on our breaks at the pool I worked as a life guard. It is seeing Deathly Hallows Part 1 in a foreign movie theater halfway across the world at 12:01 and not feeling lonely and homesick for the first time in weeks. It is planning a dream trip to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter with friends every time there is an airfare deal to Orlando. After I see the movie next week, my childhood will truly be over. And for me, it comes at an appropriate time. But for me and the many other college students my age, we grew up with Harry, Ron, Hermione and all the others. The books, the movies, the magic kept us mesmerized with Harry's world well past the age where we grew tired of other things from our childhoods. For me, Harry Potter is knowing Hogwarts will always be there to welcome me home.