While I don't think I'll be using the train too many times after the first few rides, it's beyond words what this would mean to really hardcore fans. It's everything I've wanted since I opened the books over a decade ago, and what I've wanted every day since. Yeah, my six-year-old self imagined Actual Hogwarts instead of what we have, but that was before I learned that theme parks are their own kind of magic.
I know, I know, this is cheesy beyond belief, but walking through Hogsmeade and up to Hogwarts already had me in tears when I went (and then as I left, and then that awkward part in the middle where I got banned from Universal until this May... but that's another story) because it was so overwhelming not only to see the culmination of what I'd been waiting for since before WWoHP was officially announced and what I have such wonderful memories of awaiting with people like you guys, but because I was going to Hogwarts.
It might not make sense to some, but Harry Potter has defined my life, my development, and the person I have become in more ways than I will ever be able to explain. To have such a physical, amazing manifestation of that meant the world as it is. Now, to ride the Hogwarts Express and be able to replicate what I've read and watched just that much more? I'll pay as much money as it takes and wait in lines as long as it takes and it'll be magical.
