Happy birthday, Harry! According to Potter author J.K. Rowling, the Boy Who Lived was born 35 years ago today. Let’s celebrate with 35 Harry Potter-themed facts.
生日快樂，哈利!根據哈利波特作者J.K.羅琳，這個大難不死的男孩是35年前的今天出生的。讓我們用35個哈利波特主題的花絮來慶祝一番。
1. ROWLING AND HARRY SHARE A BIRTHDAY.
1. 羅琳和哈利是同一天生日。
They both blow out candles on July 31 (happy birthday, JKR!). And that’s not the only influence Rowling had on her characters: She’s said that Hermione is a bit like her when she was younger, and her favorite animal is an otter—which is, of course, Hermione’s patronus. Plus, both Dumbledore and Rowling like sherbet lemons (Rowling said that the wizard’s 「got good taste」).
他們都是在7月31日吹蠟燭(羅琳生日快樂!)。羅琳對她筆下的角色的影響不止這些：她說赫敏和她自己年輕時候很想，她最喜歡的動物是水獺——所以，這當然就是赫敏的寵物了。另外，鄧布利多和羅琳一樣都喜歡檸檬凍(羅琳說鄧布利多「很有品味」)。
2. SHE INVENTED THE NAMES OF THE HOGWARTS HOUSES ON THE BACK OF A BARF BAG.
2. 她在一個嘔吐袋的背面創作出了霍格沃茨學院的名字。
In 2000, Scholastic gave schoolchildren across the U.S. the opportunity to ask Rowling questions about Harry Potter. When one student asked her, 「What made you think of the people's names and dormitories at Hogwarts?」 Rowling responded, 「I invented the names of the Houses on the back of an airplane sick bag! This is true. I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.」
2000年，Scholastic(出版社)給全美在校兒童向羅琳提問關於哈利波特的問題。有個學生問她「什麼促使你想出人物的名字以及霍格沃茨宿舍的名字的?」 羅琳回答說：」我在一個飛機嘔吐袋的背面創造出了學院名字!這是真事兒。我喜歡起名字，但我也手機不同尋常的名字，這樣我可以搜尋筆記本然後找到一個符合新人物的名字。「
3. EARLY ON, ROWLING WROTE A SKETCH OF THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE FINAL BOOK.
3. 羅琳一早就寫出了最後一本書最後一章的草稿。
Rowling calls the idea that she had the first chapter of Deathly Hallows written and locked away in the safe 「rubbish.」 But there was a small element of truth to it: 「I had, very early on—but not the first day or anything, probably within the first year of writing—I wrote a sketch for what I thought the final chapter would be,」 she told Harry Potter's big screen portrayer, Daniel Radcliffe, in an interview for the Deathly Hallows Part 2 DVD extra features. 「I always knew—and this was from really early on—that I was working toward the point where Hagrid carried Harry, alive but supposedly dead, out of the forest, always. I knew we were always working towards a final battle at Hogwarts, I knew that Harry would walk to his death, I planned the ghosts—for want of a better word—coming back, that they would walk with him into the forest, we would all believe he was walking to his death, and he would emerge in Hagrid’s arms.」
And that mental image is what kept Hagrid alive, Rowling said, 「That was so perfect for me, because it was Hagrid who and took him into the world, and Hagrid who would bring him back … That’s where we were always going. Hagrid was never in danger.」
羅琳將《死亡聖器》的第一章寫好，並鎖在了保險柜裡。對此，她稱之為」垃圾「。但是有一點是真實的，「我早就把我認為最後一章的內容寫好了草稿——但不是我寫作的第一天，而是第一年的某一個時間。」她在一次採訪中告訴哈利波特屏幕上的扮演者Daniel Radcliffe關於死亡聖器下DVD的特別花絮部分。「我一直知道——從一開始很早的時候——我就一直朝著我心中的那個畫面努力，畫面裏海格背著哈利，他還活著但是謠傳他已死去，在森林裡，一直是這個畫面。我早就知道他們在霍格沃茨會有最後一戰，我知道哈利會邁入他的死亡，我打算讓亡靈們——需要更好的一個詞——回歸，他們擁簇著他進入森林，我們都相信他是一步步邁入自己的死亡，他會最後出現在海格的懷抱裡。
就是這個畫面讓海格存活了下來，羅琳說:「這對我來說是完美無瑕的，因為海格帶他來到這個世界裡，也由海格講他帶回來……這是我們一直努力的方向。所以海格從來沒有生命危險。「
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