哈利·波特：一段魔法史 Harry Potter: A History of Magic(2017)【完整台词】

that you get a printed visual representation of witches.

And it was published in 1489,

And it was published in 1489,

written by a man called Ulrich Molitor.

In the book, Molitor claims

that witches were not as powerful as people thought,

but his illustrator clearly didn't read his text,

because the drawings tell a different story.

So here you have two women.

They're old, they're haggard and they're evil-looking.

They're dangerous and they're powerful.

It shows them as able to create dangerous weather magic,

hailstorms, using cauldrons.

This is the earliest printed image of witches using a cauldron.

The book was published in 49 different editions

and was still in print a century later.

The whole text is written in Latin,

which wouldn't really be that accessible to your average person

even if they could read.

But the images are something that everyone can read

and that is where the power of this book comes in,

and it cemented the iconography of how we understand witches to look.

At the edge of the Atlantic on the North Cornwall coast,

Boscastle is one of the most magical places in the land.

It even has its own museum of witchcraft.

So this broomstick belonged to Olga Hunt of Manaton.

She used to, on the night of the full moon,

scamper and leap about

on this broomstick on the rocks of Haytor, on Dartmoor.

Olga Hunt's broomstick is one of the artefacts

that will feature in the show.

The British Library has been scouring the museum

for other objects that might fit.

There are 3,000 to choose from.

This cauldron has a very unusual story attached to it

because it exploded,

much like the one in the stories of Harry Potter.

Ooh, this is interesting!

The tarred head.

I most definitely believe in magic.

Do I have to justify that?

The museum owns one of the largest collections of witchcraft artefacts

in the world.

So this is a dried cat.

They're often found in old buildings

and they were used as a protection charm to ward off infestation.

You'd think that a live cat would do a better job of it, but here we are.

And here we've got a selection of wands,

one of which is going to feature in the exhibition.

Now, wands are subtle tools.

They're used to direct energy,

but they're also used for creating a magical space.

We have an example here of a very dark use...

..of the practice, which is a blasting rod.

And blasting rods are basically used to blast people and to direct

negative energy at them for a curse of some form.

Oh, it could kill somebody very easily, I should imagine,

so... Used by the right person in the right way.

So it's kept behind glass normally.

Every Hogwarts pupil needs their very own magic wand.

But no two wands are the same.

"'You talk about wands like they've got feelings,' said Harry.

"'Like they can think for themselves.'

"'The wand chooses the wizard,' said Ollivander.

"'That much has always been clear to those of us who have studied wandlore.'"

Wands are an essential part of casting a spell

and everyone has their favourite.

Expelliarmus!

Did that work?

If we could only use them in the muggle world,

they'd come in very handy.

I would cast a spell to make TJ in my class like me.

Oh, not on telly!

BOTH:Obliviate!

But for the spell to work,

you need exactly the right flick or twist of the wrist.

ALL:Piertotum locomotor!

I couldn't find anything on wands, so I just made it all up.

That was all me and I had so much fun

and actually, I do remember exactly where I was.

I literally was sitting under a tree out in the open

on a very warm summer's day when I wrote that chapter,

the wand shop in the Philosopher's Stone.

And I just sat there and made up all these properties

and the cores and, yeah, I really enjoyed that.

So, yeah, no, I'm afraid I don't know anything about...

I don't know what anyone else has said about wands.

I made the whole thing up!

But there are folk out there

who have been making wands for centuries.

Dusty Miller, father and son, come from a long line of wandmakers.

I'm Dusty XII.

XIII, sorry. My father was XII. Hello, Grandad!

My son is the XIII. XIV!

I like that, I got promoted then. Did you see that?

We work for the tree spirits,

so they tell us when to go and collect a piece of wood,

where to collect it,

which tree to collect it from.

It's all very complicated

and often means getting up in the middle of the night

to be in the forest at daybreak.

Why they always want daybreak, I don't know.

Why it can't be lunchtime...

another matter entirely. Trees don't have lunch!

No, that's true, they don't.

The wood they collect is made into wands,

which they believe channel the sacred power of the trees.

Because we have this partnership with the tree spirits,

when they tell us to make certain tools, to create certain items for

people to make changes in their lives...

and be able to... Maybe do healing on other people, or themselves,

then we're quite happy to do that

and that's what we've spent our entire lifetimes doing.

In Rowling's wizarding world,

the effects of a spell can happen in an instant.

Expecto Patronum!

You just have to say the words the right way.

Take the doubling spell.

Geminio.

Geminio.

Geminio!

The spells often have their roots in classical languages

and Rowling's degree in French and Classics turned out to be useful.

Sometimes I just invented it.

It usually depended on the gravity of what I was inventing.

I often tended to give a richer provenance to things

that were very significant, like the Cruciatus Curse

or Avada Kedavra, whereas the more...

The fun things, Wingardium Leviosa is exactly what it sounds like

and it's flippant and it's fun.

Wingardium Leviosa!

It's only in fourth year that Harry encounters the most sinister spells

in the wizarding world -

the three unforgivable curses.

What are the unforgivable curses and what do they do?

Imperio!

There's Imperio, which is the controlling curse.

Crucio!

Crucio is a torture curse.

It makes whoever you're casting it at go into great pain.

So...pretty bad.

And the final curse, the most dreadful of them all -

the killing spell.

"Avada Kedavra!

"A blast of green light blazed through Harry's eyelids

"and he heard something heavy fall to the ground beside him.

"The pain in his scar reached such a pitch that he retched

"and then it diminished.

"Terrified of what he was about to see, he opened his stinging eyes.

"Cedric was lying spread-eagled on the ground beside him.

"He was dead."

It sounds so powerful, doesn't it, Avada Kedavra?

It's got a real force to it.

It's Aramaic, I think.

Well, that is genuinely the derivation of abracadabra,

not many people know that. That's where abracadabra came from.

And literally translated, it means, "May the thing be destroyed."

Abracadabra is today often thought of as a charm

which stage magicians use when they are pulling a rabbit out of a hat,

but actually it was first used in Roman times as a protection

against catching the disease malaria.

"'Double divination this afternoon,'

"Harry groaned, looking down.

"Divination was his least favourite subject, apart from potions.

"Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry's death,

"which he found extremely annoying."

A nice item relating to divination.

"On wonders past and present and to come."

About the prophecies of Old Mother Shipton,

who was a famous witch that made prophecies from Knaresborough.

A nice interesting image of a witch, which I think is...

Yes, in no way a cliche, with her enormous nose

and her chin that almost meets the tip of it!

That's great.

I have a lot of fun with divination in the Potter books

because I make it quite clear

that you get lucky once every million times.

Free will is the abiding principle of the Potter books, not prophecy.

"There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out,