I found this on StumbleUpon and it just hit one of those chords. You know the ones, the ones that you didn't know you had until you saw or read or watched something, and just realized "Oh my god. That's exactly right."
Go. Read. Yes, I admit, it's a bit lengthy, but it's completely worth it.
"I should remember what I was wearing, where I was sitting, what the weather was like, what the air smelled like when I first heard the words “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”