User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4145358-20110714025615

To me, Harry and his friends and family have been my friends and family. They have gotten me through many a rough time in which I felt as though I were alone. Reading and watching what happened to them pulled at my heartstrings. Their stories are a part of me and as Daniel said at the premiere in London, the stories will live on in me and will live forever. The ideals that Jo Rowling puts into her stories are those which should be upheld. To be chivalrous. To stand for what is good. To be a true friend. To excel in one's studies. i believe myself to be a Gryffindor because as the Sorting Hat says "You might belong in Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart, their daring, nerve and chivalry set Gryffindors apart". I would be honored to be in the house in which Neville Longbottom, Harry, Ron, Hermoine and the others from the D.A. were in. True the characters (Harry, Ron, Hermoine, etc) were only 6 years older than me if we were in real life, I feel as though I grew up with them. They taught me lessons in a way that my older siblings could not. They taught me what I mentioned earlier. They taught me how to see who my real friends were when I felt most alone. Harry Potter. The Boy Who Lived. May his story and legacy live on in those of us who it has touched in immense ways. Go! Go! Gryffindor!