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

"than waving your wand and saying a few funny words."

The exhibition will be divided

into subjects corresponding to the Hogwarts curriculum,

from divination to astronomy.

The most spectacular and bizarre exhibits

belong to a section on care of magical creatures.

So this is Edward Topsell's History Of Four-footed Beasts.

He describes a number of different beasts

that feature in Harry Potter, including the Sphinx.

Yes...

Yeah. She's interesting.

Yeah.Very unusual. It's not how we'd actually imagine a Sphinx

to look like from classical mythology, is it?

No. They are bred in India and Ethiopia.

Interesting.

When it comes to beasts, the hippogriff or the dragon,

there are certain beasts that absolutely must be in Potter

because they're so well known, you would just expect to see them there.

And I've played with them to an extent.

This one dates from probably the early 13th century.

First of all, the phoenix is making its own funeral pyre

by picking twigs and leaves and branches from the trees.

Oh, that's fantastic. And there you are.I love that.

It's on fire and it's going to rise from the ashes.

That's my favourite creature. He's gorgeous, isn't he?Yeah.

Stunning. I also like this chap,

because that's like an Augerey, which I invented.

There's no such thing, but I call it the Irish phoenix.

These are so beautiful.

Incredibly human-looking owl.

In Harry Potter, JK Rowling refers to over 100 species

of mythical creature, drawn from across the globe.

In every society and every culture,

there is the practice of magic

or the understanding of the supernatural.

Magic is a universal language.

In the Department of African Studies,

one curator has made an exciting discovery.

It's a text written in Ge'ez, an ancient language of Ethiopia.

"If you wish to turn into a lion or transform yourself into a lion,

"read the above prayer

"and write it on a silk cloth

"and tie it around your head.

"Or if you wish to be

"a serpent, write this and tie it on your wrist."

This is a prayer for transformation or to turn...

You know, to change into something else.

By the 15th century,

this type of magic had been outlawed by Ethiopia's Christian king.

So manuscripts like these are exceptionally rare.

But despite its Ethiopian roots,

this branch of magic is very similar

to an important subject taught at Hogwarts.

This book is defence against the dark arts.

So the purpose of this talisman is to protect the client

from real or imagined harm.

In Defence against the Dark Arts,

Harry's magical ability shines

when he masters wizarding's most powerful protective charm.

"'Expecto Patronum,' he yelled.

"And out of the end of his wand burst not a shapeless cloud of mist

"but a blinding, dazzling, silver animal.

"He screwed up his eyes to see what it was.

"It looked like a horse.

"It was galloping silently away from him

"across the black surface of the lake."

As the last few objects arrive from museums across Britain...

..they're being joined by works that are rather more recent.

These date from the 1990s.

I chose them all because they had particular meaning to me.

They're all pieces of writing

or doodles that I could particularly remember.

And they come from very different stages in the process.

So some of it's on my very old manual typewriter.

Lots of hand-written stuff.

They just show what I was thinking.

This is a sketch of Hogwarts that JK Rowling sent to her publishers,

Bloomsbury, and it maps out all the key elements of Hogwarts

and she's given notes, as well.

My favourite bit about this one is

where she's drawn the squid that lives in the lake.

So this is one of mine.

So I don't feel quite so reverent about this one.

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 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 phone call 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.

The Deathly Hallows is comprised of the Elder Wand,

the Cloak of Invisibility and the Resurrection Stone.

And whoever possesses all three is said to be Master of Death.

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.

Um... So, yeah.

So, this picture is very meaningful to me

on a lot of different levels.

"Harry was so close to the mirror now

"that his nose was nearly touching that of his reflection.

"'Mum?' he whispered.

"'Dad?'

"They just looked at him...

"..smiling...

"..and slowly Harry looked into the faces

"of the other people in the mirror

"and saw other pairs of green eyes like his,

"other noses like his,

"even a little old man who looked as though he had Harry's knobbly knees.

"Harry was looking at his family for the first time in his life."

I meet people quite regularly who tell me

what Potter meant to them

and I can only say that even they have no idea what it meant to me.

So I wrote Potter during what I hope will turn out to have been

the most turbulent period of my life

and I put a huge amount, more than people will ever know,

of my own life and experiences into those books

and it's not that lots of people liked it,

it's the fact that it meant that much to a few people even

is more than enough for a writer. It's an amazing feeling.

"Hermione, however, clapped her hand to her forehead.

"'Harry, I think I've just understood something.

"'I've got to go to the library.'

"And she sprinted away up the stairs.

"'What does she understand?' said Harry, distractedly,

"still looking around trying to tell where the voice had come from.

"'Loads more than I do,' said Ron, shaking his head.

"'But why's she got to go to the library?'

"'Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging.

"'When in doubt, go to the library.'"