I remember at a reading meeting on New Year's Day, a literary editor said emotionally: "People have their lives, and books have their lives." This left a deep impression on me, because Harry Potter was not yet in China. During the fire, my mother once bought me a copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. When I was young, my mind was simple, and I didn't have a mobile phone or computer at that time. After I got the book, I read it in one breath. Not only that, but he was pacing excitedly in his room for a long time.
I thought this was the norm for reading novels. It wasn't until I grew up that I read too many books that I read halfway through and I couldn't read them at the beginning. I realized that good books are like great people. They only feel comfortable when they are together, and they react when they are separated. When I came over, I suddenly realized: "Fuck you, awesome!"
Time flies by, and in the blink of an eye, it has arrived today when the second part of Harry Potter's sideline film "The Crimes of Grindelwald" was released. On the screen, justice, courage, love, loyalty... these beautiful qualities shine with moving light in the magical world covered by clouds and mountains. Rowling's work is usually exquisite, not only in the flesh and blood of each character she portrays, but also in the creation of plot and atmosphere with well-founded details throughout.
For example, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the divination teacher used the magic astrolabe to predict the danger that Harry might encounter, and that danger came from the magical aspect of Mars and Neptune. In real astrology, Neptune means unrealistic fantasies, addictive dangers, and Mars, conflict and adventure. This is in line with Harry's final ending in the Goblet of Fire, meeting Voldemort and the Death Eaters, and seeing visions of loved ones.
If you have ever paid attention to the title pages of the Harry Potter series of novels, you will know that the image of Harry Potter comes from a thin black-haired little wizard outside the window of Rowling who kept smiling at her when Rowling was on a train. inspiration. In addition, Rowling also admitted in an interview that Hermione, who is meticulous in her work and has a strong thirst for knowledge, is the dedication of her own image when she was a child.
The life experience and knowledge accumulation are blended, and the concise and beautiful language is used to lead the reader into the parallel world she has constructed. This is the reason why her works are best-selling and long-selling.
The night before I watched The Crimes of Grindelwald, I spent nearly an hour and a half watching Rowling's biopic, Magic Beyond Words. In the process of watching the movie, when her experiences from childhood to adulthood were vividly displayed in front of me, when various life fragments and scenes in the novel were precisely integrated like a jigsaw puzzle, it was the first time that I was pushed by fate and confronted with human self-consciousness. Shocked by the sparks rubbed out.
In the industry of numerologists, there is an unwritten rule, that is, the older you read the chart, the higher the probability that the fortune-teller will admit that it is accurate. There is no other reason. When I was young, no matter it was setbacks or talents, it was just a sign at most, but when I know my destiny, I have basically experienced most of my life's achievements and failures, and once faintly shined on the birth star chart. Important nodes all exude a striking brilliance in their late years.
If you show JK Rowling's horoscope to a classical astrologer, you're probably going to sigh. The Sun in Leo and vacant aspects means a desire to express oneself, but is destined not to be understood in reality. Rowling was beaten in public by girls in her class when she was in middle school, and she was always alone, which proves this. Not only that, but Saturn, the well-known calamity in traditional astrology, is in trine aspect to her most important planet, which means that when something is to be done, the process is always full of hardships. Rowling wanted to be a writer since she was a child. When she applied for Oxford University, she was rejected because she was born in a public school. After graduation, she finally found a more decent job and was fired by the leadership.
Career and interpersonal isolation created some difficulties for her upbringing, but it didn't really hit her. What saddens her the most is when her mother, who had been her greatest encouragement and support, left her because of multiple sclerosis when she was a teenager. Since Saturn is in the fourth house of family and also has a relationship with the ascendant square, her native family is full of regrets. Venus and Neptune also form a negative aspect, which causes her to meet people who are not worthy of love. Less than a few months after she got married and gave birth to her daughter, her ex-husband threatened to kick her out of the house...
There is a popular saying now that one's innate conditions and early life experiences are described as good and bad hands. Under such a metaphor, Rowling has undoubtedly drawn a bad hand. How bad is the specific hand? Once, I showed Rowling her horoscope to my students without telling her name, and most of the results I got were: It's good to survive.
Not giving up at that time, I gave a hint: "But there is another Neptune in the third house conjunct Mercury. The combination of extraordinary imagination and excellent expressive ability." Unexpectedly, the answer I received was still no: "Her family environment is not good. Her original family is already miserable, and her relationship is also miserable. No matter how talented she is, she will be almost destroyed..."
I don't intend to repeat here the surprised expressions of everyone on the spot when I said the name of the life master. Just through this incident, people can't help but think, what is the reason why people are becoming more and more fatalistic in today's increasingly advanced technology? If you want to talk about the problem of class rigidity, when Rowling applied for Oxford University, many people who were not as good as her were admitted because of their superior family background. This problem has existed for a long time and is not unique to this era. If Rowling's luck lies in the encouragement and support of her family, then how can many people who have the same talent, better economic conditions, and happier married life as her fail to create the same legendary works? ?
The biggest difference between fiction and reality is that when everyone reads a novel, they know very clearly who the protagonist is, while in life, everyone is a participant who longs to be the protagonist and is full of uncertainty about himself. You see, even a fortune-teller who can predict good or bad in people's eyes, did not expect that Rowling, whose horoscope was miserable, could become a richer winner in life than the Queen of England, and is still exploring all aspects of life. How can everyone easily define himself because of an accidental experience and a blow from someone else?
I remember that in the Harry Potter series, Hufflepuff was the most inconspicuous one of the four academies, and Newt, the protagonist of the Fantastic Beasts series, was also an ordinary and introverted character, and he was arrested by Hogg for violating the school rules. Watts fired. One of his few appearances in the Harry series is his role as the author of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It can be seen that the time and space changes in the novel can make unexpected people become the protagonists, and the changes in policies and trends in life never stop.
The once humble Taobao shop owner has now developed into an internet celebrity with an annual income of one million. Renren, the most popular social platform in the past, just sold a low price and hastily ended... They say that life is like a drama, and now every little thing is It may become a foreshadowing of the gray line of the grass snake. The cycle of good and evil, good and bad, bravery and cowardice, glory and defeat never stops. Rowling uses her pen and ink to tell us that even in the magical world, there are prejudices, conflicts and wars, which have nothing to do with reality. Different, magic has never been the key to turning the tide, it can only be used as a tool, and the real power has always been the human heart.
In fact, no matter whether it is the Harry Potter series or the Fantastic Beasts series, Rowling tells us only one thing through her works and personal experience - nothing is absolute, and the only magic that exists in the world is to become the master of her own destiny.
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