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I agree that the country didn’t matter for me in this contest. I ended up actually voting for no one in the U.S., I just voted for the poems that spoke to me, and I almost cried (I am a softie) for the poem in 13-17 about the most of all learning to read ….. but good luck to all of the semi-finalists. They are really lucky, and talented!

Oh my God! It nearly made you cry? Thank you so much … I wrote that poem, I’m from Australia and I’m really glad that someone enjoyed it! It’s a true story, too … You have made me very happy today, Stenojoz.

I am so excited for this competition! I loved lots of the entries in the 13 – 17 category, not so much the adult section, though. I love Harry Potter!

Hey you’re a semi-finalist? I’m a semi-finalist!
That’s cool! :D
It’s nice to be able to say something to another semi-finalist.
Your poem was really good. :)
I hope someone from our category wins overall. It’d be cool.

Wow, that’s so awesome! I was so happy when I got that email … I was pretty much hyperventilating.

I think someone in our category will definitely win, because the adult entries are rather disappointing.

Are you from the UK?

Hi Rhiannon. I voted for your poem too. Thought it was great! But unlike Stenojoz the ending made me laugh, not cry.

Thank you, Kate! I really love you!

I read your poem, Rachael, if you are reading these comments! Turns out you are from the UK … and it occurs to me that we are the oldest in our category. Along with one other girl.

It’s lovely to talk to random HP fans from around the world.

Hey, I’m Laura H., one of those ‘disappointing’ adults in the 18+ group! :-) There doesn’t seem to be a very positive opinion of the adults’ entries in general, but I hope at least some of you liked mine! I really enjoyed writing it, and was so amazed and excited that it was chosen. Harry Potter means so much to me, and the chance to go to London and read that book would be unbelievable. Anyway, I just wanted to say best of luck to Rachael and Rhiannon, who both had fantastic entries, and also good luck to any of the other semi-finalists reading this. And a huge thank you to anyone who might have voted for me!

We are the oldest in our category… :) It is cool to talk to HP fans from around the world. Certainly no one I know personally is as obsessed with me. And my friends are always giving me funny looks and rolling their eyes at me whenever I talk about Harry Potter – and that’s why I love leaky – HP fans from around the World who like it as much as me!

Laura…I absolutely loved your entry – I voted for it. :) I so hope you are the finalist for the adult category!

all the entires were so good i had such a hard time chosing.

Thanks, Rachael! I loved yours, and Rhiannon’s too! And I agree about finding fellow fans online. That’s what’s great about Leaky, and other HP sites – you can find a whole “family” of people who love the same things you do!

Hi Laura … I went back to read your entry, it was the one my family and I voted for! I was worried that your poem might’ve been one of the ones I didn’t like, and then wouldn’t know what to say … but it was my favourite, so that works out nicely.

Rachael, it must suck to not have any HP-obsessed friends. I consider myself very lucky to have a group of friends with identical interests to me – and some days, we talk about Harry Potter constantly. Especially during the lead up to book and movie releases.

When Deathly Hallows came out, one of my friends and I sat outside the bookstore overnight to be first in line for the release at 9:01am. I think we were there for nearly twelve hours, and it was freezing cold … lucky the bookstore owners remembered us from when we waited for Half-Blood Prince and let us in early.

Turns out our camping out was rather pointless in the end, because the town I live in is relatively small and people didn’t really start turning up until about 6:00am.

I guess the point is, if I were to somehow win this competition, I would so want to bring my friends with me, or at least someone who would truly appreciate the chance to read the Beedle the Bard. Unlike my mother.

Who would you bring with you?

Thanks, Rhiannon—I’m glad you liked it! I really thought your poem was beautiful.

I’ve had the same experiences waiting in line for the books! My sister and I went at 8 in the morning for the midnight Deathly Hallows release. It was really fun spending all day in the bookstore with hundreds of other fans!

It’s too bad you wouldn’t be able to bring someone along who would really appreciate it! I have so many friends and family members who are huge HP fans, my trouble would be deciding which one to bring! :-)

I’d have trouble picking who to bring. Because although my friends like it, I’d probably take my Mum. And she would enjoy it, but she’s only read one of them. She likes the films and so doesn’t really know what Beedle the Bard is. I would want to take someone who would really appreciate it and the trouble is, the only people who would really appreciate are people of the fandom and I don’t know anyone who loves it like everybody of Leaky and all the other fan sites. So I’d end up taking my Mum.

PS. Rhiannon – you’re right. It does suck not having obsessed Potter fans. One guy I know does really love them but goes to a totally different school and I hardly ever see him. Like maybe once a year. But we were thinking of starting a HP book club – though we’d be the only ones.

My dad point blank refused to take me to get Deathly Hallows before it came out at Midnight, but luckily the shop is only 2 minutes up the road and so I spent the evening counting down on my “Harry Potter Count Down Clock”, listening to Wizard Rock and making my bedroom “Harry Potter friendly” to prepare for reading it. =D

I really can’t type today. I mean it sucks not having friends who are obsessed Potter fans. =S