One Saturday night a few weeks ago, I was walking alone down the street in the third arrondissement of central Paris. I'm looking for a famous Taiwanese milk tea shop. A few minutes later, I held a cup of caramel milk tea and stood on the street in the cold wind with my mobile phone. I opened Google Map blankly, and suddenly saw a place name on a nearby street: maison de Nicolas Flamel. The House of Nicola Flamel, the name is so familiar! I suddenly wanted to jump with joy in the cold wind. He is Dumbledore's good friend in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", the owner of the Philosopher's Stone, and the long-lived medieval master of alchemy! His former residence was an ordinary stone house in an ordinary alley in the third district of Paris. According to a few lines on GoogleMap, this is the oldest stone house in Paris, where Frammel and his wife Penenelle lived 600 years ago. Today, in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, there is a small street named after Flamel, which intersects with the Rue Penenaire named after his wife. How romantic! Pennell Street is also much larger than Flamel Street, and if you go shopping on Rivoli Street in the city center, you may sneak past Pennell Street, which is just behind Zara and H&M.
This little discovery ignited my mood throughout the evening. Harry Potter and his world is one of those things that still keeps me engrossed from childhood to this day. It's an outlet for me to fight, escape, and nostalgic about the world, and it always gives me answers. The most amazing thing is that all of this comes from Rowling's brain, and I will believe what she says. Someone on Quora said that everything that humans have and create today, including ourselves, and cities, money, religion, technology, and even the entire universe, may just be a junior high school assignment for some advanced alien creature. If so? Then maybe every rain is an oblivion spell on the whole city, maybe my cat really understands what I say and just completely ignores it, maybe there's a box, open it and you'll see what you're most afraid of , a photo, or a letter from a long time ago, you have to resist them with a very happy laugh.
A good friend of mine, who is also a fan, sent me a link to Pottermore last year to test my academy. That was the funniest test I've ever done! If you had one magical ability, what would you choose? I chose to change the past between talking to animals, Hercules, predicting the future and changing the past. What do you most want to see at Hogwarts? For me, it is not the Mirror of Erised that reflects the strongest desires, because as Dumbledore said, the happiest man in the world can use the Mirror of Erised as an ordinary mirror, in which he sees It's what you want to be. Of course the one I want to see the most is the centaur, centaur! Presumably this answer sent me into Hufflepuff.
I was initially disappointed, both of my friends went to Ravenclaw, the popular Autumn Zhang is also from Ravenclaw, based on my impression of the Sorting Hat, when it doesn't know which house to put a student into When the time comes, he will be stuffed into Hufflepuffs, a complete open bar, a trash can academy, the most ordinary ordinary person. The French translation of Hufflepuff is poufsoufle, and even my colleagues who have not seen Harry Potter told me that I only remember this academy! Because the name is so funny, the puffy fart pad is probably such a name.
When I first saw Fantastic Beasts I lead actor Newt in a movie theater two years ago in November, I thought he was as funny, restrained, socially awkward as the Hufflepuff he came from. I always walk with my neck crooked. It may be that I have changed a lot in two years (does anyone think 28 to 30 years old is the two years that people change the most?), today, in Newt in Fantastic Beasts II, I see our countless Similarities:
Don't care about worldly vision, ignore success, reputation, and even the so-called moral justice, have very self-judgment standards and values. This "don't care" is not the bravery of Gryffindor for greater justice and glory, but, technically speaking, not knowing how to care about these things, how to put these things Substitute it into your formula for speaking and doing things.
When doing things, only ask whether the moment is worth it, whether you have made the best choice at that moment, and be worthy of your heart, regardless of the consequences of success or failure. Just like Dumbledore said to Newt, it is useless to tell you anything about fairness and justice, you can only ask yourself, is this right?
Sympathy for people and creatures rejected by the mainstream, a vague and compassionate attitude towards all creatures that are weak and not fit in. It seems that there is a voice in my heart that I feel that I can save and protect all the people and things that are bullied. In the movie, Leta turns around and says to Newt before he dies, "You just can't help but fall in love with monsters, don't you?"
Also, with a strong interest and curiosity in some things and a huge disregard for others, it's easy to see what the person likes and dislikes. Newt's biggest fear is spending his life in an office, and I probably do too, but I haven't had the courage or ability to change for a while. In the end, in the face of love, I give everything I can, and there is no room or means at all, but I am shy and reserved like a child.
I just became a Hufflepuff like Newt, extraordinary loser, amazingly banal.
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