Raw footage from J.K. Rowling interview aired on October 8th, 1998, ITN.
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- Raw footage from an interview made in Edinburgh, Scotland, with J.K. Rowling, in 1998.
The interview segment was aired on October 8th, 1998, on ITN, and was around 3 minutes long.
This is the entire footage from that interview session.
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I cannot thank this woman enough for bringing magic into our lives. Every time life took a dark turn her magic made me want to live . I owe her my life .
I feel you! 💕
Animals, Music, Harry Potter and myself were my life savers as a child and teen.
Me too. Me too.
Thank God you're not trans then. Imagine how crushed you would feel to find out she hated you all along. she probably has a few suicides at her doorstep, it would be shocking if she didn't.
You mean bringing other peoples magic into your life and passing it off as her own..
@@reluctantsocialist2670 Awww do strong, independent intelligent women intimidate you and make you feel inadequate ? I wonder if there may be some other motivation to your comment?
I love JK Rowling, the Harry Potter series helped me through a dark time, it gave me somewhere to escape to and revisit when I feel down. It’s just proper escapism. It’s been awful seeing the hate thrown her way in recent ways.
I agree with you completely. Clearly, JK has touched a nerve of what I like to call 'The Woke Agenda', even though she's simply been honest, rational and realistic! Fair play to her for speaking sense. This woman is a literary genius, of course, and 50-100 years from now, future generations will truly appreciate what a trailblazer and amazing marvel she is.
She knew full well she would be canceled and standing up means risking everything she worked her entire life for. She has seen it with some of her famous friends like Johnny Depp, who lost everything because he was cancelled (JK Rowling stood with him and she got backlash too). And yet, she still spoke up, stood her ground, despite all the hate and vitriol towards her.
It reminds me of Harry in book 5, where the news and government was branding him a liar but Harry didn’t back down. Eventually, they found out Harry was speaking the truth all along when it was already too late.
Rowling too, has been tested and proven to have true bravery. Now I know where Harry’s bravery came from.
What a fantastic, driven, disciplined and down to earth lady. She's impressive.
Simply one of the great storytellers. Rowling can plot unbelievably well. I’ve returned to these books many times. Not many writers have what she possesses, that ability to keep readers turning the page. Her writing played a massive part in my childhood. I’m forever grateful.
Then why are there Literally Hundreds of Potholes in The Harry Potter Books and Films? 🤔
@@GaryTongue-to3pw "hundreds of plot holes", can you name one of them?? The movies are trash, but the 99% of "plot holes" in the books are just people lacking basic reading comprehension and logical thinking, those plot holes can simply be explained away by connecting the dots. Only 1% are actual plot holes, but then again, no work is perfect, even Tolkien's work has a lot of plot holes. If Rowling's books had hundred of plotholes, they would have NEVER sold over half a billion copies. It would have never became the best selling book series on the planet. Having hundred of plotholes in a book series would mean that they are trash and poorly written. Rowling's work would have never became this successful it that were the case.
In the early 2000's I was a single mother with two children, I was taking night school college lessons in California and in my creative writing class I had to write a thesis on an author. I choose J.K....I searched on line for interviews of J.K. Rowling and this one sticks out in my memory. I find her writing style unique and inspiring. I am so grateful to come across it again. 🦉Hagrid is my favorite character besides Hermione of course.
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I hope youre still writing!
I love her so much ❤️ she created a world that I could easily escape to when I was growing up.
What's your age now??
I’m still escaping to it till now , and I’m 37 now ..
Same here. HP was parallel to my life back then. I'm 32 now and the memories are still fond as ever.
I’m 25, and I’ve been a fan since I was 4, when the first movie came out.
27. Knew about scenes I was 5
"That chapter deals with what happens to the survivors after they finish the school" - this is why this woman's intelligence is so astounding. In 1998, she had already planned the Hogwarts battle in the seventh volume!
This is what writers do. She also created so many plotholes lol
@@cyberreality7774 So what? Most of writers commits plot holes. Even Tolkien commited such. When anyone says Tolkien was a genius everyone undoubtedly agrees and I doubt anyone would come up trying to evidence the fact that he had commited plot holes to downplay his inteligence. But when someone notes Rowling inteligence and strategic thought then it suddenly becomes a problem enough to downplay her skills. It doesn't have logic. Plot holes never maked any writer less inteligent. Also, she was a solo mum facing financial dificulty when she writed first Harry Potter's book. Imagine how busy and chaotic her life was, having so many duties yet she managed to write a book and created a whole universe.
@@cyberreality7774 she created a whole imaginative world. Of course there will be plotholes with a world so huge containing so many developed characters interacting with one another.
George RR Martin should've taken inspiration, considering hers is possibly the only sensible way to do it.
@@cyberreality7774 what plotholes?
This is such a gem of an interview! Thank you for sharing it!
JK has a great sense of humour! You can just tell at the start when she corrects the pronunciation of her name. I am not bothered by anything "negative" this woman has said on social media - take all that nonsense away - you are looking at a genius! She is a fantastic writer. And she has made billions of children happy with her literature. I often wonder how many little children have gone to bed feeling sad for whatever reason only to be enthralled and excited about Harry Potter books an movies :)
Her “negative” stuff just further proves her intelligence.
@@LovelyDay11 I was never a HP fan, but she gets my respect for speaking out and pointing out the facts when others dared not to.
She didn’t write those books. She only channeled them. She admits this repeatedly in many interviews.
@@aWomanFreed every writer says that, because that's often how it feels when writing. It's nothing mystical, it's just being in a flow state and having created well-rounded characters and compelling situations.
@@aWomanFreed Only?
Such an incredible woman of immense imagination and integrity. She even stood up for Johnny before the world knew the truth. She’s a gift to this world. 💕
True bravery.
Standing up for what is right, even when it’ll cost a lot.
I love how she made it clear that she wouldn’t it have Disney or Dreamworks touch Harry, and that Harry MUST be British.
This woman's Harry Potter books taught me how to read and write in proper English and the wizarding world she built allowed me to escape a time in my life where I was terribly bullied at school at age 11. She really played a pivotal role in my life 💖
I'm sorry to hear you were bullied terribly at school when you were 11. I endured various forms of bullying (name-calling, deliberate exclusion/isolation, physical violence, etc.) at school from age 5 to age 18. The funny thing was, I always had a group of friends throughout it all, but that still didn't act as a buffer. The world of imagination, music, and hope and faith that life will be better in the future helped me to get through it all. ❤🔥
The more i reread the Harry Potter series, the more I appreciate the mastermind and brilliance of it from Rowling's talent.
Emotional and fluid imagination, sure. Brilliance? Not too sure about that.
The proof of a good book is when one actually wants to read it again. I enjoy rereading her books, too.
JK Rowling is amazing!!
@@davidlenz9902 She's pretty brilliant. If you see all the clues she leaves in each book, it's pretty incredible. As a writer myself, I aspire to write something with that level of thought and power. It's not an easy task.
@@NsTheName Yeaaa, idk. I categorize Nietzsche as brilliant. I'm very particular with my intake though, all media included. That's just me I guess.
I'm not a HP fan and never read any of the books but I find it criminal what our cancelation culture has done to her. People easily forget the immense gifts she gave to the world with her books and also with her charity works.
Charities are all scams.
No one can keep track of where the money goes.
Just cuz they say it is going somewhere, doesn't mean it is. Most of the time, the people in charge pocket the money and just pretend to give it to the unfortunate.
We didn’t forget. More and more are waking up from this craziness.
I scrolled the comments section on this video and didn’t find a single negative comment. She’s far from cancelled.
It was lovely to see the raw footage of this interview and to show how nervous she was. It makes it more real and relatable. I think many of us can dream it was us sitting there and getting our book series published in the way she has, I think it gives us mere mortals hope, that one day we too will fulfil our dreams 🥰
Of Course she is nervous! She is a Neurotic! Neurotics are ALWAYS nervous.
I love watching JK Rowling's interviews. Thank you guys for sharing this!
Your welcome
I can listen to her talk all day.
Her early interviews are a gem
I hope she knows how many people are still grateful to her, and continue to want to read more about Harry's world (importantly: by her hand!). Loud, angry voices have run off with her name and tried to detach it from Harry, I want her to remember that we, the quieter voices exist too, and loud doesn't mean more.
She admits in an old interview that she’s got a “short fuse” and while I agree with her I also hope she doesn’t waste too much energy arguing with idiots. I’ve done the same and I wish I could have gone back and ignored them.
I side with her.
I wish I can be a loud voice too, but I’m not. What little I can do, I will do.
I have always admired her as a writer. But now I greatly admire her as a person.
This is what true bravery looks like.
This interview is such a gem. To understand the thought processes, whilst being in the middle of the developing HP world, is so lovely to hear the growth of the story and how it’s evolved.
My 15 year old daughter is currently developing her own novel. She dreams of being an author, so it’s lovely to see the processes involved in JK’s journey, so my daughter can reflect how a highly respected author completed her work.
I love the honesty & a bit of backstory as to the passion & drive involved behind the story development. Thank you Joanna / the Rowling library for releasing this insightful interview. An amazing lady who me & my daughter have the utmost respect for. 💜
21:02 She says she'll be 33 the following week, so this was recorded between the 19 and 25 of July, 1998, merely 3 weeks after the publication of Chamber of Secrets.
Freemasons? And/or in lineage?
3%, 15:25!
26?
What a refreshingly sensible grounded woman JK is. Just the right amount of humorous scepticism . Genius writer too.
Very good term "humorous scepticism"
I know Jo at school and she is a nice person from a lovely family.
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Why did people bully her again? She seems like an quiet outsider... Whos absolutely brilliant! Bullies suck. I went to Catholic school in the 90s and we weren't allowed to touch harry potter because of apparent witchcraft. Yeah. So I never had a chance to read them. I have a feeling they would've benefitted my lonely childhood immensely!
Because the trans cult demands every woman to bow down and deny her own words, reality, experiences. Even when those people are writers. But especially when it’s women. It’s a mens right movement.
@@connorberry6377 out of touch how? all she said was, that women need the ability to define themselves. how is it out of touch to say that women need sex segregated spaces? also i notice how people like yourself, who criticize her completely reasonable tweet, never have a bad word to say about all the hate filled, violent filled, sickening death and r@pe threats against her. Not very woman-like to threaten r@pe against women. Those people always get ignored, unless you think what was said against her is justified.
@@connorberry6377 Her views are only 'out of touch' with the younger generation. People around her age and older tend to agree with her. But she is as entitled to her views and to air them as those who disagree with her are also free to do so.
@@connorberry6377 have you read her statements? Too many people criticise her when she has only asked that women should have safe spaces. She is 100% right as women are subjected to violence and until this changes women need safe places.
I think the tide is turning and there is now greater support for her views. She has been the victim of so much hated and verbal violence and yet she continues to be so brave. She is inspirational
Read them now! I still love them and am 68
Right off the bat you can see why she struggles with the trans thing, being asked to use her initials instead of her full name to sell more books in a patriarchal society. She had to overcome so much as a female writer to get the book written/published all while being a single mom without a real income.
Fast forward to today and you have men thinking that if they simply dress up like a woman they are one. That’s not how it works and this woman has had her name dragged through the mud simply because she has dared to say “we are not the same.”
or accepts as a biological fact the woman are woman and men are men, and a lot of women can be put in harms way by men claiming to be a woman and insisting and going to shower with the girls.
What did she actually say that caused so much anger and upset? I mean I consider myself pro trans in that I am accepting of people living how they want and being who they want to be but sometimes it does seem as though people take offence at everything these days ...but then on the other hand I think I'm not transgender so I don't know how it feels so maybe I'm not in a position to judge
Well summarised. This is exactly it. Most women who “wake up” to the reality of “being kind” have worst experiences than those middle class men in dresses who are being applauded. It’s bizarre! And the social media biz has created this notion to “use your platform” - even for pseudo-science and queer theory. And Joanne finally got it a few years ago. Like many of us women.
@@dominicaaaaa5547 she said if “sex” doesn’t matter over felt “gender identity” - ie if a man can call himself woman and therefore the word woman becomes meaningless then our whole experience as a sex class with a unique way of life and with different bodies and needs is erased. Because the word woman means that a man can’t be it. It’s as simple as that. The word excludes all males.
@@roxierootsxx if a man has a sex change he becomes a woman. A trans woman yes but trans women are still women roxie
The interviewer Let Her Speak !! YES!! Fascinating interview..thank you very much 🤗👍
These books helped me to grow up. Thank you J. K. Rowling. ♥
This is fascinating. Some of it was already known to me; from other interviews or fan lore; but to hear about the progression of a legend, from Jo Rowling, is breathtaking.
I love that woman! So talented and brave! She's an inspiration for us all!
“CONTINUITY!” Amazing humor… I have rewatched a few JK Rowling Docs more times than I can count… I love her and her story even more than Harry Potter. All love for her allways 💖
I read the entire series in about three months for the first time and thought, right, I'd better read these because both my son and wife had read them and I was fascinated. So, as you know, when you get in a funk, you need something to lift you out and disappear into a world of wonder and just brilliance, and Harry Potter was perfect. I felt like I was special and I would try and guess who else in my town was reading Harry Potter at the same time and just waiting in anticipation every night ready and waiting to dive back in. I'm thinking about writing for the first time but now thinking about it, I have no earthly idea how she came up with all of this. It is truly mind blowing to me. Down to every single detail. And in the end, it's a story of love and growing up to be a good person. It made me, an almost 50 year old male, wanting to read anything I could get my hands on. So I thought after I finished them last month, how long I should wait until I re-read? I thought maybe July 31, Harry and Jo's birthdays, but then thought why don't you just start again because you know you want to. So here I am a month after finishing, Sorcerer's Stone in front of me, ready to dive back in and experience this whole journey once more.
Oh this was so heartwarming. Thank you so much for sharing. Hogwarts is nearer than you think... ✨💞🌷
Reading this made me smile. If I was an author, it would be the ultimate best compliment to be told that the book I’ve written made others want to read anything they could get their hands on.
The imagination and ambition she had even at just book three to know and have everything planned! Unbelievable
even before she finished book 1, she says she already had boxes of notes on the world of Harry Potter
At times in this interview she is a bit insecure. We get to see it because it's unedited, yeah, but also because it's propably the interview- situation itself, which she was still not extremely used to, as opposed to her interviews in the later years. For me, it makes everything about this interview so much more genuine.
But yeah, insecure at times. Like at he 17:16 . The most successful female writer in history being insecure. I mean already this makes this footage worth seeing.
Wow amazing. These old interviews are amazing to watch. Thank you for these gems.
I missed her interviews so much ugh, I hope she does more talk for Ink Black Heart than she did for Troubled Blood.
Thank you very much for uploading this raw footage :)
Absolute Heroine ⚡💜 I hope she knows how much she is admired and respected.
I'm Indian the amazing story writer of JK Rowling we are proud of her glimpse of amazing stories
I love this. Thanks for uploading.
She will forever be my inspiration and my hero. In my first year at uni, I actually was lucky enough to live just 20 metres down the street from this cafe. I couldn’t believe my luck. Rowling forever ❤❤❤❤
There must be something in their coffee that turns one into a creative genius
Such a gem of an interview, I could watch and listen to her talk all day! Thank you for sharing
I got into Harry Potter around late 2001, and those years waiting for the books and films from 2001-2011 were such good times.
Love love love this! I have seen snippets of this interview and wished more was released, so to see this in full has made me very happy!!
Thank you, Joanne. You're amazing and the world of Harry Potter is an everlasting wonder. 💓
The year is 2022 and still not sick of it, actually started to re read the entire series for the ? Time lost count
I am happy J.K didn't sell it to Disney... We all know what happened to Star Wars 😄
exactly i am a fan of both universes, Star Wars is kinda lost, we only have fan films and the Expanded Universe, but the Wizarding World is still here, the creators are essential on the real narrative of their creations
And Simpsons 😢
@@mdaddy775 true!
@@augusto____ That's how I feel.
This is my favorite sleeping video. So relaxing!!! Thanks a lot!
I've noticed that there's something sad in her eyes. Maybe it was all that horrible abuse she got from her husband in Portugal and the fallout from that.
Her mother died
@@jillybe1873 but didn't her mother die in 1990 a full 8 years before this ? I still think that even after leaving Portugal the trauma of what her husband did to her still lingered. My mother suffered a similar story but in Spain and I witnessed the abuse directed towards her by my Spanish father at 5 years old but my mother and I escaped him and went back to England. I just see it in her eyes, there's something sad and anxious about her. My mother had the same.
She is a genious. I was about 10 when the Philosopher's stone came out and 25 years later I still love HP and watch the movies. 😂
Lived near that café in the '90s (formerly the Nicolson Street Café) and occasionally imbibed there. I do remember a young woman always hunched over a writing pad, and I'd wonder what she was writing, if she would ever amount to anything, and why there was a snowy owl perched on her shoulder.
Beautiful
She should start a university, where the young people are taught only to formulate opinions once they have all the facts, and there is no ideology promoted
Hogwarts! 🤣
Got me through rehab. Thankyou Jo ✨❤️✨
This woman needs to be praised and loved for all she has done. Getting young people reading, creating this incredible world that has gone on to create a successful film series. And a theme park.
And yet. The mad trans sector have flattened her every amazing achievement. Shame on their ugly misogyny. JK Rowling. I salute your superb magic.
The normies are waking up. The toxic woke bullies are losing their power.
Gracias por subir estas entrevistas que no puedes encontrar en ningún otro sitio, nos dan la vida a muchos fans
G. O. A. T
Edit: addition - thanks to all J's fans. Tin Tin wishes you a wonderful day 💫 and lotsa adventures in your life.. with best wishes from professor Calculous, 2 Thompson's, Snowy & captain ☺️ thundering typhoons :-)
I am just in love of every interview displayed here in this channel. Thanks again for sharing this incredible conversation to us!
Very interesting interview.
Wish they could have picked a quieter place for the interview.
I love this woman!!!
Amazing! Thank you so much for posting this
Thank you for uploading this interview. I am a great fan of her work.
Alright, she knew even back then that the Order would be the hardest to write and take most time to finish.
Wow... She seems so... Different here than I've seen in other interviews. Very fast speech, not smiling as much. Compared to her later interviews where she's giving slow, carefully thought out answers to the questions.
Very interesting...
Experience
No need for women to smile if we're not happy.
@@ellie-tk4jy Sure. Just that usually when someone's giving an interview, since it's going to be on tv, people do tend to smile a bit more. Like Rowling seems to do in many of her later interviews. Just making an observation here.... Don't really think women have to do ANYTHING unless they want to 🙂
When you are often interviewed, the same questions tend to be repeated over and over again. You unconsciously learn to answer the same way and it becomes a dry, repetitive thing.
That’s why I love these old interviews of JK Rowling. Her reactions and answers are still fresh. I’ve already known many of the things she mentioned here from watching her other interviews, but I still learned a lot of new things because she answers more detailed here.
Jo is a genius - unquestionably so. One can talk about "flawed genius's" forever, but it's irrelevant.
This woman made me booklover, I hated reading before HP series, love her and oh so grateful🤍🙏🏼
the news media is so wrong ... edit 33 minutes down to 3 minutes?? impossible. we live in fast times
Incredible Joan, thank you for Harry. It's more than just books.
Love♥️♥️♥️
Thank you for making my childhood magical ❤ Harry Potter was my escapism from abuse and bullying
Thank you so much for creating the library!!! I love the gift that she has created and given us!!!! Love jk!!!!!!
She seems like a typical Leo that got organized and gave her gift to the world. What an inspiration.
Is she?
Also an intuitive writer?
I just finished The Silkworm. Love the characters in the book. Will be looking forward to reading more of the characters
People who try to destroy her work as a writer are very stupid and selfish and I am sure they’ve never red the HP series or even one page of it. I don’t want to live in a world where those idiots have the right to decide what’s good and what’s bad bc it would be unbelievable boring like a book with blank pages. J. K. Rowling is the best and I wosh all the best to you. She should be honored by the queen, too ! Thank you for everything :)
Yes, I am sure they don’t even read 🤣
These woke crap are mostly Gen Zs who grew up with tiktok, not Harry Potter.
THAT'S AMAZING!!! thank you Rowling Library ❤
i love J.K. Rowling
Her determination is inspiring.
She’s just so inspirational and down to earth
I don’t know much about this woman. I am vaguely aware of her story and I watched the movies with my kids. What brought me here is curiosity to find out what’s all the fuss from the woke bunch.
I absolutely love her honesty and I say good on her for sticking to her believes.
Most of the people who criticise you are not worth even of kissing the ground on which she walks…..just hope we don’t end up cancelling the last intelligent humans
I admire her even more because of this too.
Aww, Neville turned out to be far from hopeless 😊😍
Wow - so young there! And still can't quite believe what has happened...
This woman is amazing! Got me to be a life long reader :)
I love you and support you in 2022!
She's great! She is simply brilliant.
Why is the guy asking the questions sat on other side of the room? Can hardly hear him
And he sounds like some phoney, humourless shrink
Rowling is a inspiring woman
I haven't read any of the Harry Potter books. Frankly, the sort of thing that Harry Potter is doesn't interest me at all. I stumbled on this video quite by accident and decided, on a whim, to view it and, I must say, Harry Potter aside, I do like J.K. Rowling very much.
Wonderful woman
I absolutely love Harry Potter and I have read the book 7 times so far plus all the relating books.
I enjoy imagining that I was at Hogwarts with them.
Thank you Jo. Harry stories have helped me many times and brought joyful moments to my life.
I stand with you 💯 .
Happy Birthday to a most brilliant writer. All the best Jo 31-07-22🙏🎂🎊
Such a shame she has been villified just for expressing her views which do not chime with the snowflake generation.
Great find!
She's still my hero after all these years I'm just realizing
mine too 😊
I wonder where you were able to find this footage? Unless you have access to the TV channel's archives?
This would be Nicolsons cafe, I used to go there a lot, and then I think it closed down, but appears to be open again.
This is my favorite interview of hers. Especially when she just burst out laughing that she find it funny about her idea that wizards live among us in secret. 😆. I got banned on reddit defending her because I can't take any more of the lies being thrown at her just because she stands up for what she believes is right for the children and women!
I got banned too from the HP sub haha I was defending her right to freedom of speech and they banned me xD
Let’s keep doing what little we can.
Unassumingly common and not traditionally literary. It’s hard to imagine that young lady would go on to write one of the best teenage novel series in modern history. Once an average student studying French and classics at Exeter university, the young Ms Rowling was described as “lacking ambition and enthusiasm” and spent most of her time socialising with her friends than studying.
Thanks JK and keep up the good work.
She almost gives away the fact that Harry survives!
Tbh, I think she kind of did. Being someone that’s read the books twice when she said that I was like “wooaaaahhhh”, giving it away a bit.
Love her so much!!! ❤
She is a beautiful creator, let her books be passed on from generation to generations to inspire other creators
It is fascinating to what degree most publishers were (and probably still are) prejudiced. They enjoy pre-judging...
No one guets close to this woman! Best writer in the world! Queen of writing!
JK Rowling, someone that created a completely new world for children to dream about. I am not a child and was an adult when my niece, also a young adult gave me the first Harry Potter book to read. I had always given the children wonderful books to read as they were growing up so they all became great readers. Now, they are opening the wonders of a good book to their children. I, like millions of others were entranced by JK Rowling's stories and her imaginative world became a part of our lives. I truly admire her for all she has accomplished, as a writer and as a woman.
When she talks, her tone and the way she typically has one hand at her temple, makes her seem kind of melancholy.
Joanne is so down to earth l am glad she is on the side of sanity and outspoken about the insane fake woke agenda
23:40 The year is 1998 and her idea of a most complicated plot of hers is that of *Prisoner of Azkaban* 💁