User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4183647-20110723045315

Harry Potter means everything to me. Words cannot express how much. I know that everyone says that, but it really is true. Harry Potter means everything to a lot of people. It means staying up until 3am to finish those last couple chapters, it means laughing at something Fred and George said and having everyone around you think your crazy, it means crying every time Sirius is flung through that archway, it means hating Umbridge with an insane passion, it means re-reading each book five different times, it means watching the movie trailers ten times and getting chills all ten, it means hating Snape then realizing what an amazing character he really was, it means bawling, tears in my eyes as Harry walked into that forest ready to die, or it might even mean crying while writing this because you are realizing how special Harry Potter has been to all of us. I know for me, when I picked up one of JK Rowling's books, I was pulled into this amazing world, leaving behind my own world and problems. Harry was not just a character in the book, he was my friend. Someone I grew up with. Who knew that one book could bring so many different people together? That it could bring a whole country together? Or that you could find so much happiness and joy in one book? I have learned so much from these books. I have learned that love is powerful, friendship is important, loss of a loved one can either destroy you or make you stronger, and that everyone can have courage if you believe in yourself. what JK Rowling has written has truly changed my life. When the last book came out I was so sad, but it wasn't too bad because I knew we still had two movies to go. Now that the last movie came out Thursday, I am sadder than ever, but as Dumbledore said in the Prisoner of Askaban, "You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?" I know Harry will always be with us, and I know that the boy who lived will keep on living in everyone's hearts, including mine.