哈利·波特：一段魔法史 Harry Potter: A History of Magic (2017)

“Magic, in some ways, it’s a spiritual believe system, because it does depend on this idea that there is a connection between all life, and all life is sacred, and that magic is a way of drawing on this creative energy that is in the natural world all around us.”
“魔法，在某种程度上是一种精神信仰系统，因为它依赖于一种观念，就是所有生命之间都有关联，而所有的生命都是神圣的。魔法就是一种从我们身边的自然世界中吸取这种有创造性能量的方式。”
—随笔摘抄，蛮喜欢这句话的，英...

对于一个哈迷来说，这个纪录片简直太棒了。我知道罗琳是在离了婚的情况下，带着自己的孩子，为了给孩子们讲睡前故事而创造的这个故事。一切仿佛都是巧合，仿佛都是上帝最好的安排。她大学读的是法语和古英文，这在她创作小说时想魔咒和专有名词提供了帮助；她会画画，让她能够画出一些霍格沃茨城堡的简图和人物形象图；在她创作哈利波特六个月的时候，母亲去世了，这对她的创作，对哈利波特故事的走向产生了极大的影响；她自己是一个喜欢泡在图书馆的人，也许她用自己的形象做原型刻画了赫敏，那个喜欢看书，说whe...

「There's something buried deep within all of us I think that would like to get the owl and be told you are not only unique and special, I'm going to take you to where your people are. I mean that's such a seductive idea. I think that's not just something that children crave. It's something that all of us crave.」
「Don't legends always have a basis in fact?」
「Children believe in magic because they're starting to make sense of controlling their world. But I think we...

the British library英国国家图书馆
complete herbal
他读珍贵的书的时候 用一个链子压着 让我想到了我读哈利波特的时候 也不舍得碰～
boscastle
museum of witchcraft
magic in some way is a spiritual belief system because it does depend on this idea that there is a connection between all life
and all life is sacred
and that magic is a way of drawing on
this creative energy is in the natural world all around us
法语和古英语
belief is also very important to magic,if you believe in it then it will happen.
free will is the abiding principle of the potterbooks not prophecy
the popular view of fortune telling today it's that it's about foretelling the future,and that definitely wasn't the original purpose of divination.it was much more in fact largely about helping people to make decisions.
so it's sort of contacting the subconscious in a way.and then appealing to another force in order t…

由头是大英图书馆为庆祝《哈利波特》电影诞生二十周年办了纪念展，
除了珍贵的罗琳手稿，还附带展出了激发罗琳创作灵感的历史和科学古籍。
古欧洲的画册美得人神魂颠倒，罗琳要翻阅前还小心翼翼地征询同意，生怕破坏。
BBC就这个纪念展为主题，采访了罗琳阿姨、策展人、魔法爱好者、哈利波特迷。
片头看到Cosplayer特别惊喜，居然有小粉丝扮演疯眼汉、哭泣的桃金娘、特劳妮教授，太可爱！
大英有一个可爱的馆员小姐姐说自己是个Nerd，应该是拉文特劳学院的，哈哈。
霍格沃兹教的就是牛顿前中世纪到文艺复兴...

距离第一本《哈利·波特与魔法石》出版居然已经20年了，感觉躲在被窝里一口气读完四本哈利·波特的日子，还是昨天。
我是很不吃“情怀牌”的人，喜欢的东西多着呢，没空怀旧。
但研究研究魔法史还是挺有意思的。
其实西方也有自己的“老中医”，所谓《草药大全》，就是他们的《本草纲目》。
各种传说、精灵、巫术……魔法的世界真让人着迷，追溯到童年与幻想，世界大同啊。
这么多年，听说过关于J·K·罗琳的N多版本创作历程，作家的自述最不可信，迷恋她创造出来的世界就够了，不用迷恋造物主。
很喜欢片子...