Chapter 18: The Most Failed Man I've Ever Seen
Some people say that the MV of the plot music of Lanruo Temple's "Millennium Elegance" is accompanied by an ocarina, and the ocarina is quite similar to the flute, but the name of the instrument is not the point here, the important thing is that it has been felt, and it has been known, and there is more poignant art and more truth.
One of the Guardians of the Devil, Rowling
Joanna and Rowling (1965), commonly known as J.K. Rowling, is a British fantasy novelist whose representative work is the Harry Potter series.
Her Harry Potter book sold more than 4 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books of all time, and her adaptation of the same name became one of the highest-grossing films in film history. The series is fully licensed by Rowling, who also served as the film executive director for Harry Potter - The Reaper's Relic Part I.
Rowling was born in Yete, Gloucestershire, England.
In 1990, when she came up with the inspiration for the Harry Potter novels on a missed train from Manchester to London, she was a researcher and bilingual secretary at Amnesty International.
While writing Harry Potter – The Mysterious Philosopher's Stone, Rowling endured poverty, the death of her mother and her first divorce before publishing the first book of the Harry Potter series of novels in 1997.
Its successors were published year by year, with the last book, Harry Potter – The Reaper's Relic, published in 2007 and came to an end.
Rowling's next work, a completely different from her famous novel, was the tragicomic novel Temporary Vacancy for adult readers, published in 2012.
The following year, she published the crime novel "The Call of the Grainbird" under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, which Rowling says would develop into a series of novels.
Rowling's life is like a Cinderella story. In just 5 years, she went from being a poor single mother receiving government assistance to becoming a wealthy best-selling author.
She is the best-selling author on record in the UK, earning around £23.8 million in royalties.
In 2008, the Sunday Times Rich List estimated that Rowling's fortune was worth around £56 million, making her the 12th richest woman in the UK.
Forbes named Rowling the 27th most influential celebrity of 2007, and Time Magazine named her second most influential person of the year in 2007 for her "social, moral, and political impact on Harry Potter fans."
In 2010, The Guardian named Rowling the most influential woman in the UK. She has also been involved in charity activities, supporting charities such as Comedy Relief, the British Multiple Sclerosis Society, Ginger, and Lumus.
Although Rowling mostly uses her pen name "J.K. Rowling", she uses her real name "Joanne Rowling" when Harry Potter - The Mysterious Philosopher's Stone is published.
Considering that the book was intended for young boys, the publisher was afraid that they would not buy a book written by a female author, so they suggested that she use a two-letter abbreviation as a pseudonym instead, but Rowling did not have a middle name. So she chose the "K" of her grandmother "Kathleen" as the second abbreviation of her pen name.
She always calls herself "Jo". He also said, "When I was a kid, no one would call me Joanna unless they were angry. 」
After marriage, she sometimes used her husband's last name "Joanne Murray" in her personal affairs.
For Levison's investigation, she uses "Joanne KathleenRowling." In an interview in 2012. Rowling says she doesn't mind people misunderstanding the meaning of her pen name.
Rowling's father, Peter, was an aircraft engineer at Rolls-Royce Ltd. Mother is half French, half Scottish. The two met in 1964 on a train bound for Ablos, which departed from King's Cross railway station.
In 1965, Peter and Anne were married.
Rowling attended St. Michael's Primary School in the village. It was founded by former British House of Commons abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah Moore. Alfredan, the principal of St. Michael's Elementary School at the time, is believed to be the prototype of Albus Dunledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter novels.
Since she was a child, Rowling has been writing fantasy stories and reading them to her sister. "I remember telling her a story about her falling into a rabbit nest and the rabbit family in it fed her strawberries," she recalls. And the first story I wrote down (when I was 5 or 6 years old) was about rabbits, and the title was rabbits. He got measles, and his friends came to see him, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. 」
When Rowling was 9 years old, the family moved to Church Cottage in the village of Todze Hill in Gloucestershire, close to Wells Chepstow. When she was an adolescent, her aunt gave her an autobiography of the old British social protest writer Jessica Mitford, who became Rowling's heroine, and she read every Mittford book.
In an interview with The New Yorker, Rowling said of her adolescence: "I was very unhappy. It was the worst phase of my life. 」
Her family life was terrible, Rowling didn't get along well with her father, and her mother was sick. When she entered Wyden School, her mother was also working as a technician in the school's science laboratory.
Rowling says she looked like she was when she was an adolescent "just like the Granger model. She's an exaggerated version of me when I was 11 years old, and that's something I'm not proud of. 」
Rowling's English teacher, Steve Eddy, recalls that Rowling was not particularly brilliant at the time, but was "part of a group of cheerful girls who did well in English."
Her senior friend Sean Harris has a teal Ford that Rowling portrays: "Jon Wesley doesn't look like Sean at all, but he's a completely Sean-esque character. Regarding Rowling's musical tastes at that time, she said, "My favourite group was the Smith Orchestra, and when I arrived in Punk, it was the Impact Choir. 」
Rowling excelled and was elected president of the student girls, with an "A" in English and two "A's" and a "B" in French and German.
In 1982, Rowling took the entrance exams to Oxford, but was not accepted, and studied French and classics at Exeter University, a place that shocked her and "expected to be with many similar, but radical people".
When she joined a group of like-minded people and started making friends, she felt like she was being herself.
Martin Sorel, professor of French at the University of Exeter, recalls Rowling's university days: "A quiet and capable student, always wearing a Danning coat and dark hair, she had a capable appearance in academic language. 」
However, according to Rowling's own recollections, she felt that she "didn't do anything" in college, and that she "drew a lot of eyeliner, always listening to the Smith choir and reading the books of Dickens and Tolkien".
Rowling spent a year in Paris as an exchange student, graduating from the University of Exeter in 1986 before moving to London to work as a researcher and bilingual secretary at Amnesty International.
In 1998, Rowling wrote a short essay about her time in the classics titled "WhatwastheNameofthatNymphAgain?orGreekandRomanStudiesRecalled", which was published in the journal Pegsas at the University of Exeter.
After finishing her work at Amnesty International, Rowling moved to Manchester with her then-boyfriend.
In 1990, as she sat on a four-hour delay on a train from Manchester to London, the story of a young boy reading at a wizarding school came to mind.
She told The Boston Globe: "I don't really know where the inspiration came from, it started with Harry, and the other characters and plots slowly surfaced, and finally occupied my heart. (To be continued......)