User blog comment:JoePlay/Wizarding World Giveaway/@comment-4135308-20110711040805

Harry Potter was a real eye opener for me. It brought me closer to my family, and it brought me closer to the idea of opening my imagination. My mom read me the first book when I was 5, and I remember the excitement in me when my dad took me to watch the very first movie when I was still a young girl. I've followed the characters in both the books and the movies through the years, watching them grow as well as watching myself grow up. I was always the first in line at the bookstore in town to get the newest book, and always the first from my little town to have a pair of tickets to the newest movie. Harry Potter is my childhood. When the final book came out a few years ago I thought to myself how much of a lasting impression this series has made. It took me to a world way different than the one we live in. It was my escape, I was at hogwarts with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, I felt like I was there. I've always felt the same way about the movies. They were MAGICAL. I'll never forget how amazed I was with the first movie, Hogwarts was incredible. Now, with the last movie only a few days away, I am forced to realize that in a sense, the 15th of July will mark the ending of my childhood. Now 16 I am forced to realize I will never be recieving my letter for Hogwarts, but that doesn't mean that the magic that these books and movies have stirred in me will ever go away. J.k Rowling did an OUTSTANDING job developing this story, and these characters, and the movie directors have done an OUTSTANDING job capturing the story, and the characters and the magic. Harry Potter will never die, I can faithfully say that I will forever remember these books and movies, and years from now I plan to read the very first book to my son or daughter, just like my mom read it to me, and I plan to show him or her all the movies, so they can feel the magic too, just like I have for all these years.