J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and Me (BBC, 2001)
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Harry Potter and Me is a Christmas television special by the BBC, broadcast on 28 December, 2001. It is an interview with J. K. Rowling, and is notable for showing pages of Rowling's notes on the Harry Potter series.
Uploaded for preservation purposes as this documentary is notoriously hard to find and many HP fans haven't seen it.
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#HarryPotter20
19:40 How was going away to school politically incorrect?
I've answered this before on here:
In children's publishing, it (was) a big no-no to write about children going to (boarding) school, as publishers didn't think there was enough escapism for children to be interested.
i.e. it would be a waste of time and money in publishing such a book
MoneyMoss4ever. I agree. I was going to ask the same question.
MoneyMoss4ever it’s because boarding schools are for posh kids and therefore exclusionary.
some people see it as sending your kids away so you don't have to bother MoneyMossForever
yeah and the Posh thing I guess
About 9/10 years ago, I was travelling in a taxi with my mother in Edinburgh and I'd been reading the 'Prisoner of Azkaban' on the plane. The driver saw the book in my hands and he said I was in the same seat JK Rowling sat a few weeks ago!
***** I know! It didn't register in my head properly until later. Then I was like OMG!
***** Aye, a fantastic pure coincidence!
ScottieGirl20 I bumped into her once, in Edinburgh. She was coming out of her cafe down the road from the Royal Mile, which runs from the Scottish Parliament to the Castle. Her cafe is just a few doors away from a restaurant I eat at every time I go to Edinburgh. She's a real lovely lady. Funny too.
TheLightofAniu That's amazing, I'm so jealous! Did you say anything, or was it just a brief hello?
I said hello, and then said "Thank you for being my childhood." She gave a sort of blush and said thank you, and gave me a hug. Then we wished one another a good day and went our separate ways. I wrote her a letter; then she wrote back wishing me luck on my own novels.
Those publishers that didn't publish Harry Potter must be so pissed right now
+Runa Leahy I remember hearing the fist book discussed on Radio 4, soon after it had come out, and some daft bimbo actually said she thought that to set it in a boarding school was not such a good idea, and that J. K. Rowling should have shown *more imagination*!
(Moral of the story: If something is outstandingly good, there will always be some ass who will try to show how much better *they* are, by adversely criticizing it.)
+Offshoreorganbuilder
tbh when you wonder, it really isnt somehow original or innovative idea. In fact, setting plot of each book in period of one school season and setting action in boarding school is not original by any means.
Anyway these are brilliant ideas, even if the concept wasnt new. Why searching for sophistication where it isnt needed and even allowed?
I guess this bimbo wasnt realising that it is the balance between imaginary&ordinary what makes fantasy world work.
I know righttt
:D
Runa Leahy They've published better
Is it just me or is she an astonishing illustrator as well? Those drawings are exceptional.
She really is; as a freelance illustrator myself I was both surprised and impressed! I hope we see more of her art someday.
Just how much would it cost for me to hire you (or, how much per illustration)?
Thanks. :)
I knew of her ability because my collectors edition of the Sorcerer’s stone has an illustration of the Dursley’s she did herself.
Yeah, just imagine who much they'll be worth...
her genius is on par with Joni Mitchell's. They're both supreme artists in their chosen vocations, and also with their second-choice art forms of sketches and illustrations.
Am I the only person that desperately wants to get at her notes and read everything? To know every little detail!
+SaraKristin1 You are not alone. I was delighted when she mentioned the books were for obsessives, because that is exactly what I was.
Well, we're pretty lucky, because that's what Pottermore is there for! :)
i think if J.K had a fire, it wouldnt be just her crying... it would be us all
But she is revealing more and more. Just go to potermore.com :)
Same I want to read the history of the death eaters 😔
Honestly, I still cant understand how she wrote such a book...............
Absolute inspiration
right? i still dont understand how all of that came out of one persons brain
It's called having an imagination, idiots.
@@MrParkerman6 It's not just imagination! It is a whole combk of many things such as: Ideas, creativity, intelligence, emotions and a lot more!
And let me also tell you that it doesn't always work to have all the things going well altogether. Many times we have imagination, but we don't have sufficient or suitable elements that goes well with it. Just having imagination alone is not enough.
5 years of work and a lifetime of passion without any promise of a payoff
Read up on Tolkien's life and that's real inspiration, the man lost dear friends during the war and was heavily educated. Even after selling Lord of the Rings the biggest series on the planet it still wasn't what he would call his finest work, he had so many ideas that never got published. J.K. Rowling got a lot of work cut out for her because of LotR as it was not unheard of for a fantasy book to sell more than The Bible by the time she grew in popularity.
"every 30 seconds someone somewhere in the world begins a Harry Potter story..."
Gerald Cadiz let that sink in, that’s insane
Welp time to read my harry potter book. OH CRAB!!!!
Wish I could just go back to when only the first four books were released, and the first movie about to come out.... and wait so EAGERLY for the other books and films to be released... watch the trailers, be excited about the upcoming stories and how they would be represented in films.. I feel so GLAD and GRATEFUL for having lived all those moments and I'd give anything just to relive them...
You fucking masochist
I actually read those first books in 2001 right before the movie came out.
Ugh I wish I hadn't been born/been so young when all the books and movies first came out
I remember the rush of excitement when they announced of the upcoming film. It is the feeling i will treasure forever and then again when JK Rowling released the order of phoenix, half blood prince and deathly hallows, it is all so memorable and exciting. Harry Potter became the part of my childhood.....
I miss Harry potter.
Her writing is a gift from heaven. There is so much hidden truth and wisdom in how to live and fight the darkness of the world in those books. There is real magic, the strongest magic is love. That was her message, loving no matter how hard it is and no matter how much it hurts to do so, we must keep fighting the darkness through the magic of love.
I remember the thrill of when a new Harry Potter book was released: it was like Christmas. I remember being 13-14 yrs and not having the patience to wait for the translation, so I bought it in English as soon it was released and curled myself up in a chair with the book and a heavy dictionary for hours, meticulously looking up each word that I did not understand. It is strange how going back to the books now, I still get the same sort of feeling as I did about 10 years ago. It feels like a safe place.
+AmateurishTraveller Thats crazy haha xD Thats like if Winds of Winter was released next weed but only in Spanish I'd have to do read it regardless xD
Wow!
Me and my sister did the same thing! Lovely memories ❤
AmateurishTraveller that is way your english is so amazing today hahahah
wow!! but omg so true that it feels like a safe place. im sure a lot of people can relate. when my parents would fight i would burry myself in the books and escape into a magical world. it really was my safe place. i learned to stop caring and letting their anger affect me so much. i remember one time we were on vacation and in the hotel room, my parents were fighting. i had no where to go, no where to hide so i sat as far away from them as possible and read the 6th book which had recently been released. i remember reading the part where everyone is in the gryffindor common room and ginny has just won the quidditch match and harry gives ginny that shocking kiss in front of everyone. i was so shocked that i felt my face turn bright red. the book just makes you feel so much. the joy, the happiness, the friendship, the pain. i wonder what i wouldnt give to be able to be a part of the gryffindor common room and roam the hogwarts castle. it wouldve been nice if the movie had also portrayed harry and ginnys relationship in a better way, they were very awkward and totally missed the essence in the movies
nerdy, introvert, so severe with herself and obsessed with details...that's the only possible formula for the creation of such an epic universe. She got lost in it for years, and us as well
She's really good at drawing
they're actually fabulously good.
She has the level of a proper top-class illustrator... I freaked out
She didn't draw the drawings for the books. It was Mary Grandpre
@@tonyazaborac5767 but she drew the drawing that she shows in the video
She probably kept the last chapter in gringotts.
No safer place, c'ept perap's hogwarts
Squire 57 xD
@Gordie ` in the you know where 😉
Her voice is like a drug to me. I could listen to her for hours. I really wish she was the one that narrated the harry potter books into audiobooks, not that Stephan Fry and Jim Dale weren't amazing, but the characters voices in her head would be very interesting to hear.
It should be illegal to dig into someone's PRIVATE life without their permission, or if their not dead for historical purposes. Like how rude could you be digging into things that are none of your business. A person has the right to keep their life private if they want to. And it should be their choice and free will to spill beans about things in their life and no one else.
Maria Valentine Well,you know,it is illegal to invade someone's privacy and publicize their personal information. There is an exception(with a limit of course) for public people ,such as politicians actors and so on.
Rory Pavić
Well, that's what I mean. Some people think that just because a person , like JKR herself, is in the public eye, that gives people the right to dig into their personal life. Which is not right. No one, famous or not famous should have their privacy invaded. But also an exception to this is Private Investigators, which people hire to dig into people's lives, WHICH again, I don't think it's right.
15 years guys... just let that sink in...
:(
Sara_Tommo forreal!?!
Im so old
22.
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I was there in the audience as a child when she read Harry Potter in Toronto. Other authors read before her but she completely overshadowed them, from the moment she spoke, the entire stadium fell silent, it was as though we were all transfixed by her words, when she reached the end of the chapter the stadium erupted in applause. I love her for those books.
Aw
I was there too amazingly, in the Skydome. Kenneth Oppel also read from Darkwing
She is the reason why I read to this day...
same
My parents were one of the religious nuts who actually kept me off school one day so that I couldn't participate in Harry Potter Day because they were against witchcraft. Therefore I never experienced the phenomena and convinced myself that I wasn't missing out. Until I got to high school- Year 11- and read the first book. And I have been a massive fan ever since. And I now realize why I like both the books and J K Rowling so much. In particular, I understand why I connected so easily to Hermione Granger, because I was that swotty, deeply insecure kid at school who always wanted to get the highest grades and considered a B as a failure. I also smiled and nodded my head when J K Rowling talked about her books being books for "obsessives", because that reminds me so much of the books I like; ones where there is so much detail and I know, as she says, everything about the world. I found the descriptions of Hogwarts set texts, quills and cauldrons deeply satisfying. I LOVED the description of the Hogwarts library. The genius of these books is their appeal to a sceptical teenager such as I was. The moral questions and deep emotionality that runs through Harry's life are what have rightfully earned J K Rowling the respect from children, adults and fellow authors alike today. Truly my favourite children's books and one of my favourites in general.
+TheMusicZone I'm sad to hear your religious nut family kept this wonderful thing from you for so wrong. :( However, I'm happy that you fell in love with it in the end. :) I hope your family didn't give you any crap for it.
nerdieone1 Oh, I have a stack of the books in my room- plus I'm 20 now, so... LOL. Thanks anyway.
My family was the same way:/ I finally, after years of asking, i convinced my mom to let me read the first book! now I have read the first three and I'm totally in love😍
Same for me except my father is a pastor, so anything with magic was a no no lol. Just last year though I got the books in secret and now I really wish my parents would've let me grow up with the books, but better late than never I suppose. :)
premiumprime1998 Lol I never understood why magic is so bad in religion. Christianity itself has fantasy elements! A guy walking on water? lols yeh.
I met her in person once. Still have the book she signed. (The Deathly Hallows). Very inspiring.
lucky you
Lisa Zoria *Hallows
thesimpsons17
*fixed, thanks!
lucky
lucky you are
I literally feed on J. K. Rowling documentaries and interviews. MORE. That was amazing....
Same here
I'm rereading the book series because it's been so long since I read them, and I'm rediscovering so many things I forgot over time and from rewatching the movies over and over again. After I finish each book, I watched the movie and realize how much they left out. It amazes me how huge this world Rowling created, and all the small details she included.
well, they had to. her books are so detailed that I think the filmmakers wouldn't be able to put all into one movie without making it + 3 hours long.
IM doing the exact same thing. all those details in the books... thats the main reason that the books are bette I think.
the thing is starting with bookj4 tehr left to much out! Like with book 7 tehr should have made 2 movies of each book starting with book 4 and than 5 6 could still be on movie
Me too .. n believe it or not .. its my 5th time 😂😅😃
@@carny15 i hope in new series they will cover more and with each season episodes will increase
I remember 20 years ago, my mom came back from Canada ( we lived in Haiti at that time ) and gave me Harry Potter book. She told me that they were really popular and that i should read them ( i was and still am a bookworm ). And from that moment i fell in love with the books. Now i have kids who also read Harry Potter.
fabulous.
As I watch this beautiful documentary, I can't help but pay extra attention to what J.K. Rowling says about literature. Being able to learn so much through UA-cam videos makes me feel truly grateful! Thank you for uploading this!
I agree
When does she talk about literature? I don't care for her personal life.
Hermetic Kitten same here!
Hermetic Kitten Same!
I’m a writer and words are so important! I see what you mean here, the way she speaks is so romantic as well!
She's quite a good artist as well! Love the drawing of Snape.
Lump how did you know?
Lump I certainly agree. It looked as if she was pretending that she drew them, it’s pretty obvious because the papers themselves looked brand new lol.
She did draw the pictures she has in this video dumbasses. She just didn't illustrate the books.
People say that harry potter is their childhood but for me it is like my whole life..
Philosopher's Stone was released 20 years ago today #HarryPotter20
time flies man
feels like today really ;)
did anyone read it in 1997? is there anyone here did ? and if you didn't, write the year you started to read the books.
^ I did. Not for very long though, as I recieved it from my grandmother on Christmas. But, I guess I read a few pages. Does that count? xD
Apple's lover I think it was 2000 or 2001, my mother tried to force me to read it for some school project (the book and the other first I believe 3 were gifts to me from another family member)..like hooligaz I read maybe the first 3 pages of sorcerers stone, the rest I don't remember. Needless to say I wasn't remotely interested in Harry Potter at the time.
Wow she's a great artist! She could have illustrated the books aswell!
Yes, indeed!!!
She has illustrated the tales of beetle the bard, if you're interested in her art
Just about to write that I was.
tina cihal *Beedle
like Joni Mitchell, who despite being a musical genius, would say that she is a painter first and musician second, which is insane because of how good of a musician she is.
I really think, especially hearing how the idea came to her out of nowhere, that Harry Potter is one of those milestones for humanity that get sent to us through a chosen human like her in this case to make a great impact on our history. Which it did!
i agree
This is very inspiring, I loved the fact that she was given the mission to start writing the first book and she listened to that inner voice and actually started writing. Makes me wonder how many of us have that inspiration to do something we really want and then we try to quiet it down by fear. Lets allow our imagination to fly and fulfill our purpose in this world.
i know right? imagine she never wrote the books. imagine she kept harry in her head and never shared him with the world. i cannot imagine a world without harry potter
Tiago Azevedo thank you
Tiago Azevedo except there was never an option of that. She describes being struck with excitement and it was like meeting someone you knew you were going to fall in love with which means she said ‘yes’ immediately without fear.
i always get ideas to write books but i don’t do it because i know what works it gonna be and never imagine it being published so i don’t do it lol
The people who try to ban harry potter are just a bunch of filthy muggles
thats an insult to muggles....
@sailormoonserenity99 you would definitely be in slytherin ._.
My mom is a major religious person the meer mention of the word 'wizard or witch or potter" gets her screaming she things it is utterly evil, so you can kinda imagine how hard it would be for me being such a big potter fan
well you´re not alone.my parents are very religious too and they don´t like it either.but i didn´t care :p
lu_lily My mother is also very religious, and she religiously read Harry Potter. She read every book right after I finished it. Religion has nothing to with the lack of a functioning brain.
I cried the whole documentary.
DresdenclineInkpot I love Rowling, Harry, and I have this love for writing and being a writer since my childhood.
"I'm not crying... you're crying!"
I just got my 7 year old little cousin into Harry Potter. HE IS HOOKED.
Dani I’ve tried to get my younger brother hooked so he reads more. My older brother and I read them but my bro quit on book 4. I quit for a month on book 4 as well but returned to finish the series.
Am I the only one who just cries all the video long because Jo is not only because of Harry Potter but also in personal such a wonderful person and I just realized how thankful I am that she wrote those books because they mean a lot to me. It's like, every time I feel sad, and start rereading a Hp book, it's really like escaping from this terrible world and living for a few hours and Harry's perfect world. Every time I'm watching a video, doesn't matter if it's a making of Harry Potter or a Interview with Jo or one of the actresses, I get so emotional, start crying, just wishing Hogwarts is real. I'd really like to meet her and talk all day long about Harry Potter , what I liked, how it'll be if I go to Hogwarts, but Jo loves most about specific characters, I could talk about hours about Hp and I would to do it with her.
I agree with everything u said. Nothing can ever ever ever beat Harry Potter! Nothing. It makes u feel so many emotions in so many ways
i teared up within the first 5 seconds .
I have to admit, so did i!!
Me too! :D
That flat and cafe' should have plaques, "Harry Potter was written here"!!!
Abby Louise Rexroth they do now, well the cafe does
Cool!
The restrooms of that cafè are full of fan writings and signatures
Nicolson's however no longer exists, it was apparently bought by someone else in 03'
Oh, they do!
I remember watching this at Christmas when I was 11. It's surreal seeing it again as a 24 year old.
omg same.... some images were still so vivid in my head.
you must be 30 now. Thoughts ?
Wow...
My childhood. Thank you J.K. Rowling.
I'm trying to write a book myself and J.K. Rowling is my biggest inspiration. Harry Potter was the only books i ever loved and i started writing fanfiction about it when i was a kid. Harry Potter was the start of my dream to write a book.
+Exilon0193 Same.
How has the writing gone?
how is your writing now?
did u finish?
you know when I think back to my childhood I don't have very many happy memories but i'll never forget when the first film came out. my primary school decided to take us all to see the film and as it so happens the trip landed on my birthday, I sat back as a newly turned 8 year old and was so marvelled by it all! it literally was love at first sight when it came to harry potter and as the years went by I grew and also watched the cast do the same.I watched every film every year without fail and my sentiment grew along with it. now the point of my little story is the small handful of good memories I do have as a child is that harry potter is the main one, the one I will always look back at so fondly and smile.:)
Lovely comment! And I relate completely. Gosh, watching this gives me Post Potter Depression. Haha. But so inspiring. And I can't WAIT to show it all to my future kids! :D
I think Harry Potter is an essential memory for anyone born between the year 1990 and 2001. I too remember the first time I went to go and see it. What had happened was my school had given out free copies of the first book--I didn't know what it was and I didn't care for reading, but the book was part of "reading log" and reading it was mandatory. I will never forget putting that book down and immediately begging my mom to take me to Barnes and Noble to get the second one (I didn't know about the third and fourth one being out as well). When the first movie came out, we went to go see it and I still remember seeing everyone from school there who had, coincidentally, read the book as well. We too were mesmerized by the film...And the whole phenomenon really took off when the second movie came out. All that mattered was "the next Harry Potter film". How I loved it dearly, and still do. WE ALL DO! If Time Travel suddenly became real, I would most definitely choose to leave my college academic career behind to relive the magic and the simplistic innocence of my childhood.
You made me cry right here
omg guys stop making me cryyy.. this is all so so true and relatable
"As J.K.Rowling continued to build Harry Potter's World, Her own fell apart".
This line had me tearing for her, She has really gone through hardship. She totally deserve what's happened to her.
a Beautifully inspiring Writer
This is a fascinating documentary! Thank you for sharing it :)
I find that she is a fascinating person as well. All of the documentaries and interviews with her are very easily enjoyable and she seems like the kind of person that you would just want to know.
+atlantis2339 If you like Socialists.
I love how she is able to come up with such creative and beautiful character names. Snape, Sirius, Nymphadora, Luna, Bellatrix etc
Those are all pretty stupid actually if you ask me. She is terrible at making names. They don't exactly roll off the tongue.
I think they are interesting names no doubt . The names would sometimes reflect what the character was about . Especially the houses .
@@MrParkerman6 how many other characters have the name Snape, Sirius, Nymphadora, or Bellatrix? They may not roll off the tongue but they are most certainly unique.
@@MrParkerman6 bellatrix definitely does
a lot of them are based on Latin i believe.
I can never get tired of these Wizarding World documentaries!
I am 100% sure she was talking about Dumbledore when she said she had written a death that was extremely difficulty to write because she has stated that same thing on other interviews but did reveal it was Dumbledore then. Plus it is no secret that Dumbledore is one of her favorite creations and shes really fond of him.
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Pretty sure it was Sirius, she was writing Phoenix then.
Time well spent.
How can people justify trying to strip JKR of her life's work knowing her background and not honoring her right to opinion? I don't understand.
@Guy Incognito oh yeah, you're right... the year people lost freedom of the right to their opinion without being bullied. Got it.
No one’s dishonouring her “right to an opinion”. They’re just expressing their own, and CRITICISING her’s. If you’re at the point where the only means of defending your argument is by bringing up your “right” to say it, you know you’ve gone wrong somewhere.
@@Sichlitt criticism is not sending death threats you know
@@sit-insforsithis1568 you mean like literally every single controversial figure gets regardless of political stance? Welcome to the real world.
she's dishonouring trans peoples' right to life and not getting abused or prosecuted LOL
rowling and harry potter are definitely the best things that happened to me since my childhood. I still do not get why she let Cursed Child happen...
Did she write it?
blackham7 she kept saying that she didn't but she was with the writers in every step. like how did they put their wands together and did the exact thing that polyjuice potion would do ? WHY IS THERE A CHARACTER WHO IS VOLDEMORTS DAUGHTER LIKE WTF
Toprak Sahin she probably did it because a lot of people keep nagging her for it to go on. while she feels like it's complete a lot of others want to continue with fan fiction... which is what cursed child is. It could be her way of shutting people up? idk but I'm glad it's a play and not an actual novel or movie
2000% katılıyorum. Anaokulundan beri Harry Potter okumaya başladım. Bazı kitapları 30 kere falan abartısız bitirdim. Sonra Cursed Child çıktı, metobolizmamdan çıkarabilmek için film serisini falan tekrara başladım. Tam bir uyduruk fan fiction, bir de hikayesi kanon demezler mi?
Kadın uzun süre, insanlar istediği için değil, aklıma eserse yazacağım dedi. İlham bekliyordu. Tutmuş eserlerin hepsi böyle yazıldı. Zorladılar zorladılar en son o ucube ortaya çıktı. Fantastik Canavarları yine beğendim sayılır ama Cursed Child tam bir hilkat garibesi.
Toprak Sahin what was wrong with the cursed child, i hear people saying bad things about the book, but i don't understand why
I love that Jo said that the books are for obsessives who love every little detail of the world. That is me all over. I'm still reading the books 20 years later.
Thanks to Jo, to the local pubs/cafes, to her agents, to her 1st publisher, and to Scholastic for bringing us her works before there were buzz about them. Believing in the improbable is the greatest magic.
Doing my makeup to go and see Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them tonight, and when Stephen said 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander' I screamed!! How crazy that 15 years after this was filmed, the second film series from this amazing world is being released...
The Harry Potter books and films got me through some hard times, for which I am grateful.
Oh my gosh, I wish I could read all those notes she has!!!!!!!
Harry Potter is just everything for me. Nothing is closer to my heart. Thanks J.K for this awesome journey I had while reading the books and watching these movies.
i am so grateful for her existence!
New milestone of 500,000 views!
Thanks for all the support guys, keep spreading this great documentary :)
That ending gives me chills knowing that we all know what’s in those pages.
My female idol. I started reading HP when I was 13 years old. Now I'm 30 and for the 10th time or so I listen to the HP audiobooks from my phone while I fall asleep or take the bus or while I play a game on my pc to let go of my stress and escape in to the cozy and mysterious world of HP.
Jim Dale audio books?
The fact that this documentary took place in 2001 makes me feel stupidly old... I'm 27.
One of the first real dates me and my husband went on was to see Harry Potter. All these years later we are married now, and are watching all the movie together in order. I was 19 when the first movie came out, I watched it and immediately went home and borrowed my 6 year old sisters copy of the book. My entire family loves these book and movies, and it's been such a huge part of what has brought me joy in my life. If I ever met J.K Rowling I would shake her hand and thank her profoundly for the immeasurable joy her fiction has brought to both me and my family.
the HP series has helped me through all of the hospitalisations i have been through. i never go anywhere without one of them. JK Rowling is such an inspiration
i love her honesty and uncompromising writing ... much needed in film as well ... not serving up to your audience, but trusting your audience to follow your authenticity, to be reminded of their own authenticity through your works
I can remember loving philosophers stone and being a huge fan of Harry Potter before the films arrived!.
_ I bet my firebolt we will never ever ever get a masterpiece like harry potter again_
I hope that isn't true, but honestly I wonder how that masterpiece would be created these days or in the future
I wish I could GO BACK to this decade the 2000's.
At 17:29 Rowling looked so much like heromine writing in the window
This is so cool. I loved seeing all of the notes she wrote about the books. She's such an incredible person.
Bought the books for grandchildren as each one came out, did the queueing up at midnight with them which was such a thrill for them, have read them myself and love love love the audio books read by Stephen Fry - thank you JKR
Most inspiring thing I've watched in a while...❤️
I don't want to be a writer because I prefer to explore and discover. That's why JK Rowling keeps me entertained! I never stop discovering in her world :)
I am glad Harry Potter was a part of my childhood!!♥️ J.K Rowling - such a LEGEND 🌙 gonna always have memories 😆 one of the best experiences everr 😇 J.K Rowling made 7 horxruxes and she will live forever 🙃🙂
Thanks so much for putting this video up. I had it on VHS years ago but lost it. I had to rely on an incomplete, American version until tonight!
Seeing as I want to be a writer, this was so fascinating to watch, and gave me a big spark of inspiration. Thanks for sharing!
cancer sucks +1
"It's a book for obsessives." Yup!
joanne said she let hermione and ron get married for "very personal reasons", it's a "wish fulfilment", not for reasons of credibility, and the two would likely need "relationship counselling", did she mean that she wished to have gotten together with sean when she was young, but she no longer think that would be a good idea now? sean is very cute btw.
i think that is what it is.
Watching this while I’m reading Order of the Phoenix makes me appreciate the books more. Also I when she’s teases Deathly Hollows at the end of this doc, I’m like, ey I have that on my finger tips, all those secrets on that folder, I could uncover it whenever I like it! Brilliant peace of work! Thank you Ms. Rowling!
Thank you J. K. Rowling for being an inspiration for my generation. The World without you would be different. ❤️
I missed the Potter generation... I'm 19 in a few days and I'm the only one of my friends who absolutely adores Harry Potter :(
No matter how many times I hear her story, it never gets old. She's such an inspiration.
Bless you Jo for telling people and especially kids about dealing with depression and poverty and being put in the "stupid row" in first grade.
She’s an amazing artist and o hate the negative media attention she has received cause she’s so talented like Harry Potter is something that is apart of my daily life I absolutely love it and I hate people saying negatives about cheaters of it
My fave author ever! I know ill never get my works published but she still inspires me to write
TheBaldGamerXD i believe in you
I do love watching documentaries like this. I find learning about things your grew up with and things that have had a huge impact on you in terms of livelihood extremely interesting.
I wish JK would publish a companion book to each book with Author's notes, etc.
JKR is an inspiration to budding authors the world over! Makes me want to sit down and start writing now!!
After watching this I might go out and buy the first Harry Potter book! I love the movies (like 99% of everyone else on the planet) so I don't see why I wouldn't like the books, I'd probably like them more since they give you much more detail!
You won't be disappointed.
I am reading through them, I am currently on the 4th book. I enjoy the style of J.R.R. a bit more than J.K. She is a little verbose for me. I am writing a fantasy magic based novel myself, I write quite tersely, me and my friends like it this way. However, I may tell you this: you will not be able to put her books down. Harry Potter is the greatest fictional creation by a far.
Rachel Henson Wich house are you within on Pottermore? I am in Hufflepuff.
I saw the films 1st too
But the books rock
Not just detail lots of unexplained things from the films make sense
Eg in the books draco takes tom riddles diary from harry on Valentine's day and Ginny saw in the films how did she know harry had the diary
Also they miss out hole characters example peeves the poltergeist
Retz The books, in my opinion and with many Potterheads I'm sure, is 100x better. Movies based off books NEVER in history capture everything the book can. (At least in my opinion and from people in my life)
I was like those kids' age back then. I was 6. I'm so old now haha
#DeathTime
JK Rowling introduced a magical element into the lives of hundreds of millions of children around the world. She's a lovely, talented, kind hearted and honest woman.
lol 12:56 the book 'fantastic beasts and where to find them' by Newt ScamanderXD If they would only know...
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I was only about 3 months old when this video was released. Whoa.
When it comes to about a great book. Everyone thinks its a real story. The characters are real. Thanks J.K Rowling. She wrote wonderful book series. The documentary made me cry. And feel proud.
And now there's a Harry Potter 'world' in Universal Studios and all the books turned into movies ;-; I'm so proud and happy for her!
Omg, I remember watching this in TV and reading Harry Potter at the same time when I was 11. I can't believe I found it! Thank you for posting this.
I really am so impressed and inspired by Harry Potter I want to make a book that people love just like J. K Rowling did she is such a great writer!
God, I was 8 in 2001. Harry Potter was why I really start reading and I never stopped ever since. This is why I'm write my own stories now.
This books had huge impact on my life. I'm so thankful for this.
I cant wait for the day when all or at least even more of this info she had on the characters and early drafts ect becomes publicly available! It’s just so fascinating seeing the progress and knowing all the tiny details!
I am obsessive who loves to see every single moment of a writer's process.
I can't believe I had never seen this before!! Thank you so much for putting this on youtube!!
Something Hermione would say ... Not Harry Potter & me !!! It's Harry Potter & I !!!
Nikki Stuart not necessarily
If you see this: Thank you J.K., for the fantastic and cozy and great and beautiful childhood you gave me at the age of 9!
Thank you sincerely!
Yours,
P.A. from Greece!
I love her drawings! shes a talented artist also..
I was on the train with J.K. when she first came up with the idea. I remember her writing on a napkin and saying “scar” over and over again. I’m so happy with how much success she achieved!
What a wonderful artist.