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Volume 3: A blow of destiny, the king appears Chapter 18: The most defeated person I have ever seen

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    Some people say that the plot music MV of Lanruo Temple's "Millennium Elegance" is accompanied by an ocarina. The ocarina and the flute are quite similar. However, the name of the instrument is not the focus here. What is important is that you have experienced it and understood it. There is more poignant art and more  truth  *Literature Hall*

    One of the Demon Guardians - Rowling

    Joanna Rowling (1965), commonly known as J.K. Rowling, is a British fantasy novelist, represented by the "Harry Potter" series.

    Her "Harry Potter" has been a best-seller all over the world, selling more than 4 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling books in history; the film adaptation of the same name has also become one of the highest-grossing movies in film history.  The series of films has been fully authorized by Rowling, who also personally served as the film producer of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".

    Rowling was born in Yette, Gloucestershire, England.

    She was a researcher and bilingual secretary at Amnesty International when the inspiration for the Harry Potter novels came to her in 1990 on a delayed train from Manchester to London.

    During the period of writing "Harry Potter: The Mysterious Philosopher's Stone", Rowling experienced poverty, the death of her mother and her first divorce, and finally published the first novel in the "Harry Potter" series in 1997.

    Subsequent sequels were published year by year, and the last one, "Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows," was published in 2007 and was declared complete.

    Rowling's next work is completely different from her famous work. It is a tragicomic novel "The Casual Vacancy" for adult readers, published in 2012.

    The following year, she published the crime novel "The Cuckoo's Calling" under the pen name Robert Galbraith. Rowling said that this work would be developed into a series of novels.

    Rowling's life is like a "Cinderella" story, from a poor single mother receiving government assistance to a wealthy best-selling author in just five years.

    She is the best-selling author on record in the UK, with royalties of approximately ¡ê23.8 million.

    In 2008, the "Sunday Times Rich List" estimated that Rowling's total wealth was about 56 million pounds, making her the 12th richest woman in the UK.

    Forbes ranked Rowling as the 27th most influential celebrity in 2007.  "Time Magazine" also named her the second person of the year in 2007 for her social, moral and political influence on Harry Potter fans.

    In 2010, the Guardian named Rowling the most influential woman in the UK.  She is also involved in charity activities, supporting charities such as Comic Relief, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, Gingerbread, and Lumosi.

    Although Rowling used her pen name J.K. Rowling (j.k. rowling) most of the time, she directly used her real name Joanna Rowling (rowling) when "Harry Potter: The Mysterious Philosopher's Stone" was published.

    The publisher considered that the target audience for this book was young boys, who would probably not buy a book written by a female author, so they suggested that she use a two-letter abbreviation as a pen name. However, Rowling did not have a middle name, so she chose her grandmother Katharine's k.  as the second initial of her pen name.

    She always called herself Joe and said: When I was a child, no one would call me Joanna unless they were angry.

    After marriage.  She sometimes uses her husband's surname Joanna and Murray when dealing with personal matters.

    When Levison investigated, she used Joanna Katharine Rowling (rowling).  In a 2012 interview, Rowling said she didn't mind people misunderstanding her pseudonym.

    Rowling¡¯s father, Peter, was an aircraft engineer for Rolls-Royce Ltd., and her mother was half-French and half-Scottish. The two met on a train to Arbroath in 1964.  The train departs from King's Cross Station.

    In 1965, Peter and Anne got married.

    Rowling attended St Michael's Primary School in the village, a school founded by former British MP and abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah Moore.  Alfredan, the headmaster of St. Michael's Primary School at the time, is considered to be the prototype of Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Harry Potter novels.

    Rowling has often written fantasy stories since she was a child and read them to her sister.  She recalled: I remember telling her a story about how she fell into a rabbit hutch and the family of rabbits fed her strawberries.  And the first story I ever wrote down (when I was 5 or 6 years old) was about a rabbit, and the title was also called Rabbit.  He had measles, and his friends came to see him.  Including a giant bee called Miss Bee.

    When Rowling was nine years old, her family moved to a church cottage in the village of Toundshill, Gloucestershire, near Chepstow, Wales.  When she was a teenager, her aunt gave her an old copy of The Autobiography of British social protest writer Jessica Mitford.  Mitford then became Rowling's hero, and she read every one of Mitford's books.

    Rowling mentioned her adolescence in an interview with The New Yorker: We?Don't be unhappy.  That was the worst phase of my life.

    Her family life was very bad. Rowling and her father didn't get along well, and her mother was ill.  When she attended Wyden School.  My mother also works as a technician in the school's science laboratory.

    Rowling said that her adolescent appearance was the prototype of Hermione Granger.  She's an exaggerated version of me when I was 11, and that's something I'm not proud of.

    Rowling¡¯s English teacher at the school, Steve Eddy, recalled that Rowling was not particularly outstanding at the time.  But she is part of a group of cheerful girls and has good English scores.

    Her high school friend Sean Harris owned a blue-green Ford, which once appeared in Rowling's novels: Ron Wesley looked nothing like Sean, but he was completely a Sean-like character.  Regarding Rowling's musical taste at the time, she said: My favorite group was the Smiths, and when I got to the punk era, it was the Shock.

    Rowling had excellent grades and was elected as the female student president; she got an A in English, two A's and a B in French and German.

    In 1982, Rowling took the entrance exam for Oxford University but was not admitted. She later studied French and Classics at the University of Exeter, a place that had an impact on her and where she expected to get along with many similar but radical-thinking people.  .

    When she joined a group of like-minded people and started making friends, she felt like she was being herself.

    Martin Sorrell, professor of French at the University of Exeter, recalled Rowling in college: a quiet and capable student who always wore denim jackets and had dark hair. In academic terms, she had a capable appearance.

    However, according to Rowling¡¯s own recollections, she felt that she did nothing in college. She also wore a lot of eyeliner, always listened to the Smith Choir, and read books by Dickens and Tolkien.

    Rowling spent a year as an exchange student in Paris and graduated from Exeter University in 1986; then she moved to London and worked as a researcher and bilingual secretary at Amnesty International.

    In 1998, Rowling wrote an essay about her time as a classics student titled "Ofthat Nymph Again? Alled" and published it in Exeter University's Pegasus journal.

    After finishing her work at Amnesty International, Rowling moved to Manchester with her then-boyfriend.

    In 1990, when she was sitting on a train from Manchester to London that was delayed by four hours, the story of a young boy studying at a wizarding school burst into her mind.

    She told the Boston Globe: I really don¡¯t know where the inspiration came from. It started with Harry, and other characters and plots slowly emerged, and finally filled my heart.
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