2/20/2012 (my birthday is tomorrow!)- Icons:
          While looking through these lists of icons, I found a plethora of interesting people, but in the end, I had to go with Harry Potter. Harry is, and probably always be an icon of magic and fantasy. He is also a sort of icon of getting kids to at least read something.
           Since the books started gaining popularity, when you think of magic, one of the first things that comes to mind is Harry Potter. The popularity has inspired many things, such as getting kids to read, but possibly the most inspirational result of this series popularity was the creation of the Harry Potter Alliance, which seeks to fight things such as discrimination, genocide, and poverty.