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[marianas-art-world]

@snapeloveposts | snape appreciation month

day ten | severus snape’s first kiss

[magicscrapbook]

“Professor Sprout is the herbologist, very lovable character. I would say she's the most maternal, actually, or parental, of the four heads of House at Hogwarts. So I drew this picture on December the 30th 1990, and I can be very precise about when I drew this picture because I was staying at a friend's house, I'd been writing Potter for six months, and I stayed up when everyone else had gone to bed because I was watching the movie The Man Who Would Be King. And the reason I can be incredibly precise about when I drew this is because at some point during the time I was watching that movie and drawing this picture my mother died 250 miles away, and I got the phonecall the next day to say that she had died.

So, this obviously means a great deal to me, this picture. But there was something quite extraordinary that I only realised about 20 years later so it seems very appropriate to say it now in the context of this exhibition. The Man Who Would Be King, for those who don't know, is a story with Sean Connery and Michael Caine in it, and it's from an old Rudyard Kipling story, and the masonic symbol is very important in that movie. And it was literally 20 years later that I looked at the sign of the Deathly Hallows and realised how similar they were. When I saw the movie again and saw the masonic symbol I sort of went cold all over and I thought: "Is that why the Hallows symbol is what it is?". And I've got a feeling that on some deep, subconscious level they are connected. So I feel as though I sort of worked my way back over 20 years to that night, because the Potter series is hugely about loss, and I've said this before, if my mother hadn't died I think the stories would be utterly different and not what they are.”

- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, BBC 2017

[marianas-art-world]

@snapeloveposts | snape appreciation month

day ten | severus snape’s first kiss

[marianas-art-world]

@snapeloveposts | snape appreciation month

day ten | severus snape’s first kiss

[magicscrapbook]

  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them draft page

“So I decided to start over. I wanted to bring my website back to what it used to be: something real and personal. This is a faithful representation of my writing desk, except that I haven’t put on the bits of stale popcorn and biscuit crumbs that usually litter the surface. Everything looks a bit tidier and cleaner than it really is, but after all, it’s only polite to make an effort for guests.” - JK Rowling on the re-design of her website.

→ From the desk of new JKRowling.com website. Transcript under cut:

59.

TINA (CONT'D): Maybe I'll be good at being a criminal. I can't be worse than I was as an investigator.

NEWT: Don't say that. (off her look) [For the record] I think you're onto something with these Second Salemers.

[TINA: You do?]

NEWT: I do.

QUEENIE: Hey [Teen], it's him! [Gnarlak.]

The goblin owner of the Blind Pig, Gnarlak, is moving through the bar, tea-towel over his shoulder, cigar in mouth, many of his long fingers bent back on themselves, useless.

QUEENIE (CONT'D): Sir! Mr. Gnarlak, sir? Could we talk to you for a moment?

GNARLAK: (menacing) I don't see you phizz on any posters, sweetheart.

QUEENIE: I'm on the run with these guys.

[JACOB: She's the brains of the outfit]

GNARLAK: Weeell... you oughta be illegal in that dress. And we gotta No-Mage with us, I see.

JACON: Is that a - a problem?

GNARLAK: I'd keep it quiet. There's guys in here who'd kill ya just 'cause you're wandless. Me, I don't judge. So (he sits down) what d'you wanna know and how much you gonna pay?

The house-elf returns with another of TINA's smoking cocktails. She knocks it back.

NEWT: [hoping you've familiarity with certain unsavoury elements. I understand you're a gentleman who has his ear to the ground.] Mr. Gnarlak, we're looking for -

GNARLAK: British, huh? Yeah, I'm from the old country myself. Yeah, my whole family's with Gringotts Wizarding Bank, yeah, dey's all in the treasure-and-curse business. (MORE)

[prisonerfromazkaban]

James S. Potter is going to Hogwarts for the first time today!

[rowlingon]

Because it’s such a well-worn part of my story now, it’s a big yawn to hear how I wrote it, as though it was all some sort of publicity stunt that I did for a year. But it was my life, and it was very hard. And I didn’t know that it was going to be this fairy-tale resolution.

[rupertgrnt]

Happy Birthday, J.K. Rowling ♡