User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4147288-20110714163753

Harry Potter to me.... Put simply, Harry Potter is my friend. I have to go back a little to explain, but I was home schooled for seven years when I was a kid. In those seven years I grew up with hardly any friends, but there was Harry Potter. I was taken out of my world and joined in a huge and exciting adventure, not only filled with magic, but also with other kids my age living in a wonderful castle with the best Headmaster Hogwarts has ever seen. Reading what teachers told the class seemed to have made sense and I had the feeling of excitement when Harry ran into/found Fluffy, and the feeling of dread that they will get expelled and I cant stay. I dreamed for the day where I could be taken away to a school like Hogwarts, to meet children my age, to have an adventure like Harry’s, and thinking about it… I was. This series was our Hogwarts, we were all whisked away to a world of wonder within these pages and together we met other each other, children our ages who did the same, and J.K. Rowling gave us all an adventure that lasted a life time. With these books I grew up not just reading, but writing, imagining, and dreaming. Knowing the difficulty in doing the right thing, but still standing firm whenever someone tries to bring me down. Helping who I can, when I can, and Harry helped me learn all that, because Harry Potter’s my friend.