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Everyone is here for the world premiere
from "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".
All the stars are dazzling this afternoon
and we have real Harry Potter fans everywhere.
Who would you like to see today?
To J. K. Rowling.
As you can see
there are many Harry Potter fans.
It has been a great success.
J. K. Rowling will be here this afternoon
and is expected to speak to all of her fans.
One more minute, please.
OMG I can't do this.
This is not me!
I mean, have you seen the guest list?
What am I going to talk to them about?
What celebrities talk about when they meet.
Whether you like it or not, you are now one of them.
Thank you.
Thanks for coming with me.
What kind of man would not support his fiancée?
I wish mom was here.
Jo, it may be his movie, but tonight is your night!
You've earned being here.
Enjoy it!
- Voucher. - Let's go.
No wait.
Give me a mimuto, okay?
Joanne! Joanne!
Joanne!
- Joanne, not so fast!
- Wait for me
- Look at these crying girls!
"Better shut up, Ian!"
- Or what? Will you cast a spell on me?
- Ahead. - Leave it, Di.
- He wouldn't understand...
- Also, I wouldn't pass the test.
- What proof? Why not?
- Because you would be scared.
- I'm not scared! - Then do the test.
- Okay!, what's the proof?
- It's simple, you have to enter the forest
- Only that? Easy! Look how I do it.
- Be careful inside
- Whose? - From the witch,
- the guardian of the forest.
- She was doing evil and they tried to punish her.
So he moved to the
forest about 100 years ago.
They say that... if you go with friends, you will be safe.
But if you go alone, it will cast a curse on you.
Write your name backwards on a diamond...
and when you write the last
letter... you disappear forever.
And good...
- Acro... Acro... what do I have to say?
- Agrégari Septumus Fluental.
"And will that save me from the ogres?"
- If you say it right.
- And remember: hit and shake. Hit and shake.
- Hit and shake. Hit and shake.
- Ian Potter, where are you?!
- Sorry!
- But you're not ready yet, you have a lot to learn!
Let's go!
Agrégari Septumus Fluental.
- Hello Love. - Hello
- It smells great!
- Where are the girls? - Di is playing outside
and Joanne upstairs writing.
- Writing? - Yes, she wants to be a writer.
- Last week I wanted to play an instrument,
so I guess this is cheaper.
- Don't say anything in front of the girls, it's what she wants so give me a cable.
- I'm just saying I would have to learn to play
before facing real life.
- I know! But it is difficult to be as smart as she is.
- It may be what you want
And I won't make fun of her for it. - I'm sure not.
- "Beyond the wild forest is the wild world"
- said the rat
"and that's something that
doesn't matter to you or me"
"I have never been there, nor do I plan to go,
and you shouldn't either, if you have any common sense.
And, never mention it again, please."
- Please a little more!
- I know you miss
and you want a little more to finish the story.
Just a preview of what will happen next!
Tomorrow is your first day of class and you have to rest.
- Voucher. Good night
- Good night
"Turning off the main path, they took..."
Hi, I'm Miss Morgan and you will
enjoy the pleasure of my company
for the next nine months.
But before continuing, I must assess its performance.
Fill this out. In silence, of course.
Pass them back.
You have 5 minutes.
- What is this? - Don't you know what an exam is?
- I'm new to school. - Silence!, four minutes.
Patricia Parkinson, 10. Sit there, my dear.
Karen Bittinger, 10. Behind her.
Rupert Walden, 9.5. Here.
Joanne Rolling...
Rowling.
- Than? - It's Rowling.
All right, Miss Rowling.
1.5. Sit here.
The row of donkeys!
Now that everyone is where they belong,
check out your books and turn to page 7.
Let's go over.
Hello Love.
How has school been?
Do you want me to read something a little later?
No, I have homework.
Well we can do both, you know?
Joanne?
Joanne...
Joanne!
- Joanne Rowling. - Yes, Mr. Nettleship?
What should I compete against today?
It is a pity that it does not apply so much in studying
as in their extra-curricular activities.
I have a 9.7.
What do you mean, Miss Rowling?
I got a 9.7 on my last test. I don't need to get a better grade.
Are you saying you should waste time
teaching someone who doesn't listen to me?
Lord, he was listening.
Then perhaps you can explain to your
classmates the definition of an axiom.
It is a mathematical property that is true without any proof of it.
And can you name the four original axioms
developed by the Greeks in ancient Crete?
- Two things equal a third
they are also equal to each other.
- If equal amounts are added to equal amounts,
the sums are the same.
- If equal amounts are subtracted from equal amounts,
the difference will be the same.
- And the whole is greater than any of its parts.
Do you know what your problem is, Miss Rowling?
He has abilities to succeed.
But he prefers to give free rein to his
imagination when he should be down to earth.
Miss Stevens,
Could you change the place for Miss Rowling?
Silence, we keep working.
They can go.
Miss Rowling.
Wait a moment
Look, I didn't choose it because I didn't know the answers,
but because I wasn't paying attention.
Sorry professor
This class bores her.
Have you considered pursuing a literary career, Miss Rowling?
No sir, it's just a hobby.
Nothing more.
Hey bitch, where do you think you're going?
Where I go?
I think it's a somewhat existential question, isn't it?
- Than? - Forgives.
It is a very long word for you.
I will speak more slowly.
You should not have done that
- Nettleship is coming!
- I didn't need your help. - Of course not.
A little more and it breaks your face.
I'm Sean Harris.
Shall I help you get home?
I'm fine
Okay, whatever you want
Mom.. you think...
Do you think I'm weird? - Of course not.
- Why do you ask me? - Is that...
Nobody reads the books that I read and nobody thinks like me and...
sometimes I think something is wrong with me.
Oh honey. Do you know what this is all about?
Of trying everything.
Find out what goes with you
up here and discard the rest.
Amazing what a band aid can do...
Joanne!
Mother! Dad, Dad! Help!
Help me!
- What's going on? - I do not know!
Say, call an ambulance.
- What is Escloro...? - Multiple sclerosis.
It means that mom is very sick.
And... Can't they give him a treatment?
I don't think there is any treatment for this.
She's going to be fine right?
Happy Graduation!
You are precious! Thanks Mom!
I cut it mom!
Can I do the honors?
Why have you taken so long?
I will miss you next year.
Oxford News?
- You haven't opened it yet -No.
I am very nervous
- Open it. - Me? No no no no.
Why not?
Jo, what's in that envelope can change the rest of your life.
It may be the beginning of something very big for you.
I can not open it
I am very nervous. Please!
But are they idiots?
You are perfect and the best in the class
You only have tens, how dare they not accept you?
Jo, they would be lucky to have you there!
I think I'm not good enough for Oxford.
No, this is because you have gone to a public school
- because we can't pay... - But that's not fair!
- No, it is not. But this is how the world works.
Now it's up to you to take advantage of this situation.
Exeter is a good university.
- I don't know what kind of literature program Exeter has.
"Then maybe you should consider studying another career."
- But I want to be a writer! - And you can be,
nothing will prevent you from writing.
- Just choose something more practical.
Writing is what I want to do. It is everything I always wanted to do.
- We just want you to choose something
with what to earn a living after finishing the race.
Something like... Math.
- I hate maths. - Foreign languages.
- You are good with words, why don't you try a foreign language?
- It's a good option.
With foreign languages you will get a good job.
The secretary of my company speaks Italian and earns a good salary.
Is this how you see me, Dad? Like a secretary?
Well, that is better than a government unemployment benefit.
Plus, you'll be around if something bad happens to Mom.
Than? I will talk to her.
Jo.
I don't want to influence your decision, okay?
Do what you have to do!
Sure, as long as it's practical, Mom!
No, there are many ways to be practical, honey.
Just do what your heart tells you, okay?
If you want to be studying literature, study literature!
Michael Ross Jones, Health Sciences.
Joanne Rowling, Foreign Languages.
Bravo!
Peter Rowan, Mathematics.
Amnesty International
Joanne.
- Joanne. - Yes.
Can you give me the VISA?
- And the attached documents -Yes, of course.
They're here.
Amnesty International, Research Unit, Joanne Rowling.
Hi dear. How is the job of your dreams?
Hi Mom. It is going well.
Here I have been doing ...wonderful things.
Understand me... I like my job
really. I'm just not sure this is my site.
Can I ask you at least what you're writing about?
Listen mom, I can't find the right story and
without the right story I have no motivation.
When the time comes, the words will come out on their own.
Trust me, I blindly trust you.
Thanks Mom.
I have to leave you.
I love you Goodbye.
- Hello. - Do you have a moment, Jo?
Yes of course.
Please.
What happens?
Jo, how many jobs have you had since college?
A few... Two.
Four.
Eight.
I think you're not comfortable here.
What's more, I think you know.
- Sorry!
It was a personal call from my mother.
And he wasn't serious.
- Your heart is not in the right place.
You should do what makes you happy.
I know
but I can not.
It is not practical.
Do you know what your problem is Miss Rowling?
It has a huge capacity
But he lets his imagination run away when he should be down to earth
When the time comes, the words will come out alone
Trust me. I have blind faith in you.
Harry Potter.
His name is Harry Potter!
And he's on his way to school.
On the way to magic school.
Paper! Pen!
- Hello! - You arrived.
- Merry Christmas! - Merry Christmas!
- Hello Dad! - I'm going to put this under the tree
- I'll put it here -Well, put them next to mine too.
- Watch out! - Where's mom?
It is still being prepared. Why don't you go with her?
- I'm going upstairs. - Can I leave this there?
- Leave your gifts there. - Are already!
- My handbag! - I have it!
Mom, Dad is threatening to burn the
Christmas pudding if you don't hurry.
- I'm almost ready. - Very good.
"Did I tell you lately how proud I am of you?"
- Whose? From your daughter's eternal unemployed?
- Not. Of my daughter,
who does not know the meaning of the word "resign".
That's because they keep firing me
before giving me a chance to learn.
- They fire you because you have your father's stubborn streak.
- I'll have it removed for the new year.
I am very lucky to have your patience mom.
- I just want you two to be happy.
That you find what completely fills you up.
- You know what, mom?
I think I found it.
- Don't let it escape you,
because you don't know how long you will have it for.
- Well, I need you to stop talking like that.
Do you understand me mom? You will be with us for a long time.
- It's OK darling.
- You will probably live longer than me.
- Merry Christmas, mom I love you very much.
- I love you too, daughter.
- Of course... if you give me a grandson I wouldn't mind.
- Well, let's see mom,
- Maybe Santa has left a grandson for you.
- Yes?
Hi Dad, Happy New Year. It's not new year yet but...
Than?
What are you talking about?
I don't understand you... no.
"Rabbit", by Joanne Rowling, 6 years old
Jo?
I can't believe I kept it all this time!
- "Rabbit". - Yes, I remember it very well.
- You wrote it when Mom got sick.
Bunnies helped me
become a stronger person.
- God, I miss her so much
I can't even breathe, I need it so much.
I just want him back.
ENGLISH TEACHER WANTED TO LIVE IN PORTUGAL
- Hello Di. Greetings from sunny Portugal
at least sunnier than Edinburgh!
I have finally stabilized and started working.
It is amazing to live here.
I thank God for my roommates as
they make being here worthwhile.
Aine is from Cork, very elite,
but a love when you meet her.
And then there is Jill, who is like a mother.
Despite being younger than us
keeps Aine at bay.
Honestly Say, I don't know what they thought
when they hired me.
How am I supposed to teach English to someone who doesn't
understand my language and I don't understand theirs?
I feel very bad for not being able to be at Christmas with you
Between work and daily routine
I am very busy,
but I can't stop thinking that
I should write more.
Everything has been very difficult since mom died.
Anyway, I will miss you at Christmas.
Give your new boyfriend a hug
from me and tell Dad that I miss him.
I am writing to you soon, I love you. Jo.
Joanne, get ready, we're going out tonight.
No, I am not going out, I have to work.
Joanne! Please! Take a break from work.
- Not! - Let's go!
Now is the time to have fun.
I'm not going out, I have to write.
- Comes? - Not working.
- I'm not working, I'm going to write. - It's not an excuse.
How are you going to meet someone locked in your room?
Why do I want to meet someone if I have you?
Let's find out!
- I'll only have one. - You say that now.
Just one,
a drink and I'm going home
Drinks please.
We have problems!
Who are you looking at?
Quick, what story do we tell today?
You are a journalist from New Zealand
- Well well. - But your partner
she is in love with your brother and wants
to marry him, but he cannot marry before you,
so you are conspiring against your
father to bring him back to Portugal.
Did you get it? Journalist and partner.
- Excuse me, do you work here? In the port?
- No, I'm a journalist for the "Amsterdam Guardian".
- We Dance? - Clear.
- Well, I'd better watch her. - Okay, now I have the drinks.
- Forgives!
- You should tell your friend not to pretend to be who she is not.
Really? And how do you know that?
I know because... I'm a journalist
And that's why you listen to other people's conversations?
Sorry, I can't help it.
- Well. - But, it's a good story.
I'm glad that you liked it. Hello?
- "The Taming of the Shrew".
- Yes, it's from "The Taming of the Shrew" Did you read it?
Sure, I read a lot of things.
What do you do for living?
I'm an English teacher. That's what I do.
- Not! - Than?
- That's what I do! - No, sit down.
We have a drink and you tell me what you really do.
- I really am an English teacher! - Friend! Two glasses please.
My name is Jo, short for Joanne.
- I am George Arantes. - Arantees!
- Yes. - Nice to meet you.
Health!
Hello?
Who?
Joanna?
I don't know if he's home.
I'll see. Joanna! Are you at home?
Let me answer!
Yes?
Hello George.
It was fun.
Yes.
It's a bit cold. no?
- Oh no! I didn't mean it to... - Leave me.
- What will keep you warm? - Your smile.
Very good.
- It's here
I would invite you to go up but... my roommates
- Your roommates? You mean the dutch journalist
- And his hypocritical companion? - Exact.
- I would like to continue talking, but...
- Then talk
For me... you can continue talking until the sun rises over the Rio D'Ouro.
- Wow! You are really good.
- You told me before
- Really? - Yes, but only once.
- I'm going for a jacket and...
- I can enter? - Yes, but in silence.
- Voucher
- Thank you.
- I'm going for a jacket. It will take a second.
- Are you at home.
- What do you do?
- What are you doing? - Joanna.
- That is private!
You can't come to my house and start reading my things!
- I won't allow anyone! - Forgives.
- Jo, are you okay? - I'm fine, Aine
Sorry, go back to bed.
- Joanna. - Get out.
- I want you to go. - Please,
- Just let me tell you one thing.
- Than?
What do you want to tell me?
- I think I'm falling in love
of a great writer.
- It's only been a few months and I didn't want to say anything... but
it's really wonderful. - As long as you're happy, Jo.
- I am! For the first time in a long time
I'm dating someone and writing
a lot, what more can I ask for?
- Jo, I have something to tell you
- Than?
Oh God, is it about Dad?
- No, it's not about dad.
- Well, if it is, only...
- Than? - Jo,
- he is going to get married again. - With whom?
Not a year has passed!
- With Janet, your secretary
- Janet is already married and has children.
- He's getting a divorce.
- You can't do that!
- I don't like the idea either.
- What the hell do you think you are doing?
- Well... maybe... I'm getting over it.
Look, I'll call you next week, okay?
I'll give you more details by then.
- Very well, we will talk next week.
- I love you. - I love you too, Jo.
- How are you doing?
Because we are already ready for the party.
- Give me two minutes.
Why don't we go to another bar?
Yes, one where they hit swing. I love swing.
Joanna! Joanna, please!
- It's not what it seems. - Really?
It looked like you were going to kiss her.
Wait, Joanna, let me explain!
For what? Do not bother yourself. You have already found a new prey.
There you have more English girls waiting for you.
Forget me, it's over.
- Than? Jo, no!
- I do not want this to end! - Really? You have a very funny way
- of proving it! - Please Joanna, please, I'm sorry.
Curse! Why are you so stubborn?
George, I thought it was what you liked about me.
"Joanna, you are so independent and different from
Portuguese women. It is what I love about you."
- Oh sorry, I didn't know you were so perfect!
- I'm not perfect, I'm faithful! I would never have done something like that to you.
- Hey, wait! I will not do!
Joanna, please...
Joanna, I'm sorry!
I do not want to lose you
Joanna, marry me.
- I'm very happy that you're here, Di.
- I wouldn't miss it for the world. - I know it was all at the last minute.
Can you believe they called him from the army?
We will come home this week and we won't even have a honeymoon.
- You don't think you're going too fast?
- You just met him... - Say.
He makes me happy, okay?
- Clear. - Great.
- Joanne Rowling.
George Arantes.
Having declared their love and devotion for each other,
in front of family and friends, they accept each other
as husband and wife?
- Yes.
- I agree.
- You two, smile! One two Three
-8 weeks, nothing more.
- I'll be back in 8 weeks, okay? - Voucher.
- Goodbye
- You've arrived soon! I wasn't expecting you until tonight.
I never thought that 8 weeks were so long
I've missed you so much! I have prepared your
favorite food. And guess what! I have written...
- What happens? Than?
- Look at the newspaper, Jo.
They have given my work to someone else
- Oh baby, sorry. You'll get another one.
- Insurance! - You do not understand it!
- I just lost my job! What am I going to do now?
- I can take care of the house while... - It doesn't work like that, Jo.
- The husband is the one who must take care of his wife.
Than?
- Sorry, Joanna. - Listens,
I was going to tell you at dinner but... hey
I'm pregnant.
What do you do?
- Another mouth that I will not be able to feed.
George.
- Is beautiful!
- You know why I named her Jessica?
By my favorite writer, Jessica Mitford.
But George says to everyone...
Come here, my love.
Which is because of Jezebel, from the Bible.
You find it funny. I suppose.
- And where is your proud father?
Aine...
- Jorge is doing better now that he has finished his military service.
- He is... - Jo, you don't need
make excuses to justify him. Not with us.
I'm not... Enough, both!
He is fine, we are fine, we just
need to get a job and we will be better.
That's kind of tough if you spend nights drinking until the sun comes up.
- Aine! - Listen, Jo, you have to leave him.
It's not good for you and now that you have a daughter...
- Now that I have a daughter I can't leave him.
- Better now than when I'm older.
Since you married Jorge, she has turned you into a wretch.
What assures you that it will not get worse? - This!
- It was time for you to come back. Where have you been?
- Joanna, don't start, please
- Bet on alcohol! Get away from me!
George, move away, come on
- What, you don't want me? - Not!
Enough! Leave me! - Do not say no to me
I tell you what I want, I am your
wife, not one of your girlfriends.
- You don’t know what you are talking about.
- Oh no? - Not.
People talk, George. - Who's talking, huh?
Who speaks? The stupid of your friends?
- Jill, Aine? They never liked me. - Lower your voice
- Great thanks!
Get out of me!
- And what, Jo? What happens if I drink?
- George, please. - Of course, if I had a woman
to support me... but no, he never has time for me...
But yeah for this stupid book
from the damn "Harry Potter"! - No, do not...!
George, listen to me.
I can not continue with this.
I do not love you anymore.
I don't want to be here anymore.
- I'm tired of everything. This is too much. - You don't love me anymore, huh?
- That way I can't raise her... - Say you don't love me.
Tell me you don't love me anymore!
- I want to take the baby. - Do you want to go?
- Well, go away. - Calm down, it's just what...
- No one is stopping you, Jo. Go away!
- I said go!
Go away! Go right now!
- Please leave me alone!
You will never see your daughter again!
Do you hear me? Never more!
- Let's go! Out-I just want the baby!
- Out of here! Get out right now!
- Let's go outside! Get out. - Please don't throw me like that!
I just want my daughter! George, let me in!
Policeman! Please come!
You have my baby!
- Madam, what happened? - You have to help me, please!
Okay, okay.
Sir. Open the door.
- Open up, Policia! - Than? I have not done anything!
She has gone crazy! She has gone crazy! It's her! Is wrong in the head
- Madam, come in and collect your things. Hurry up.
- What are you doing? What are you going to do to me? Now push me?
She's my wife, you know? It's my wife!
Jo, you've already got exactly what you wanted!
- Hello. - Ho!
- What happened? - I left George.
I need a place to stay until I get home.
- Honey, of course. - Thank you.
- Your first time? - Yes Yes.
- Being unemployed is not so bad.
You get used to it after the second child.
And they give you more help.
- Rowling?
- Joanne Rowling?
- Here.
Follow me
- Rowling, Joanne. Let's see... Married.
Where is your husband?
I left it.
- Well, I guess everything is in order.
I see you are also asking for the housing allowance.
- Yes, we need a place to live, right?
- Since when are you homeless?
- We are not homeless.
We are now living in the house of my sister and her husband.
- Where did you live before you became homeless?
- I'm not homeless.
In Portugal. We lived in Porto.
- Why did they leave?
- Well... that's a very personal question, don't you think?
- You are asking the state for help for you and your daughter.
That gives us the right to ask you personal questions.
He does not believe?
- He was an abuser.
- Domestic violence.
Will the father contribute to the support?
- Not. - Why...?
Because he doesn't know where we are and I prefer that he continue to be so.
- Very good.
- One last question. - Yes?
- Are you waiting for another child? - Not right now.
- Very well, Mrs. Rowling.
Here is your billing card.
Take it to the mail once a week and they will give you the check.
- Thank you.
How much?
- 69 pounds. - A week?
How do I have to survive on that?
- How I manage it is not our business.
- It is not enough to feed, clothe...
and raise a baby.
- I should have thought that before leaving the girl's father.
Good morning, Mrs. Rowling.
- This is the floor.
They are 300 a month, expenses
apart and a deposit in case he leaves.
- We'll keep it. - Okay.
You just have to fill out a few papers
and I need to speak to your boss
- I'm not working right now.
- Of course, with your husband's boss.
- Not. It's just the two of us
- How do you plan to pay the rent?
- I'm collecting the subsidy
but soon I will look for a job.
- Sorry, we don't rent to people who...
- to people who have no income, I know,
I know, I creamé. I have seen five floors
today and everyone has told me the same thing.
But I am desperate.
I need a house for my daughter and I will do
whatever it takes to give my daughter a home.
It seems that being unemployed
I am like an inferior human being.
But I am not.
I am just a mother trying to support her daughter.
I just need someone to give me a chance.
If you rent this apartment to me I promise I will never be
late with the rent payment, I will not complain about anything.
I won't even ask them to make
repairs and I'll be the best tenant...
- Very well, the floor is yours.
- Really? - Yes.
No one who cares so much about their daughter is a risk.
- Thank you! OMG!
This is... Excuse me!
- Have you heard that?!
I will see her in my office. - Very good.
- We have house! You like?
This will be your new home.
Look, there is a big window.
- Have you had a good time at your aunt Di's?
You are very popular!
It's your first Christmas
When I was little, your grandmother prepared some
great Christmas feasts. There were all kinds of meats
and the most delicious sweets you can try.
I would have loved you very much, miss.
I would have filled you with gifts and you would
be the most pampered girl in all of Edinburgh.
I'm sorry I couldn't give you more
But next year I promise you both will have something better.
- Some friends have given us the furniture, it's not a big deal, but...
- Any problems adjusting to Edinburgh, Jo?
- No, we got along well. And I think I might have found a job.
- What do you mean?
I have had some interviews and the prospects are good.
- You can't work! - Than?
If you find a job you will lose the aid.
- Excuse me, but I don't understand, I don't understand what you mean.
- According to the conditions of the subsidy,
If you receive more than £22.50 per week, the
state will deduct that amount from your check.
- Then I can't pay Jessie's daycare
And if he doesn't go to daycare, I won't be able to work.
- You could always work as a part-time secretary
to at least supplement your income.
- And how does the state expect to stop needing the subsidy
if you don't allow me to look for a job?
- Sorry, those are the rules.
- Yes of course.
- We usually receive second-hand toys for children
and I have brought this for your baby.
- Thank you. - Have a good afternoon.
- You know what I'm thinking, Di?
For the first time since my mother
died, I'm glad it's not there to see
how I have spoiled my life.
- Jo, you have not spoiled anything.
You have a beautiful girl.
- I am unemployed, my marriage was a disaster,
I can barely support my daughter.
What I do? Where am I going now?
- You want to do?
What would make you happy?
- I'm going to show you something, okay?
This makes me happy.
- What is it? - It's a book. "The book".
I started writing it before mom died.
It's just notes, pages, stories, and rough drafts of
chapters. I still have a lot of work ahead of me,
everything is incomplete.
This is...
Where is it?
It's... the last chapter.
- From the book? - From the last book.
- From the seventh book. - The seventh?
Yes, well, if in the end I arrive.
At the moment I have only finished the first one.
- Can I read it? - Yes.
- Where do I begin? - Okay...
Start with this one.
- Say, you have to be honest, okay? - Of course.
- Well well?
- Why haven't you finished it? - I'm scared.
Of what?
What if nobody likes it?
- Did you like it? - Jo...
It's magic.
- Really? - If this is what you want to do...
Do it! Writes!
What do you have to lose?
- Well, Harry...
We are you and me
Do you wanna milk?
Oh look!
Good good good. You and I are going to have to reach an agreement!
- What do you think, Jess?
Do you think we will see "Harry Potter" there one day?
Doesn't seem very likely huh?
At last! Thank you!
Okay, let's write.
If that's not a sign...
Bring me a water and a coffee, please.
No, I'm not taking them.
Not even this.
Look, I'll take only the baby food, please.
Well thanks.
Okay.
"The Sorting Hat"
Social services
- Quick. Next!
Next?
Following?
End
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by Joanne Rowling"
- So you finished them.
And now that?
- It won't be finished until I see it in bookstores.
- And how do you plan to do it?
- I guess I'll have to find an agent.
"1994 Writers and Artists List"
- Very well, let's see.
Write Stuff Agency
Christopher Little Agency
- I need to send this. It is my book. I wrote it myself.
- Agency Christopher Little. What I can help?
- How's the mountain going this morning?
- Not bad, there is only half a meter.
- God, I hate unsolicited mail.
- Has something good come today?
- Does it ever come?
- Take one last look before you leave.
You never know what treasures...
...there could be hidden from us.
- Good night.
- "Harry potter and the Philosopher's Stone".
- I'm here! - You arrived!
- Where is my sweet, perfect and adorable little niece?
- Do you have any other niece that I don't know?
- Be kind to me, I have your email.
Do you expect anything from the agency of Write Stuff?
- My God, Di, is one of the agencies I sent my book to.
They have rejected my book.
- "Harry potter and the Philosopher's Stone",
From Joanne Raw...
- Rowling. - Yes...
- Is it a children's book? - Yes.
- Not.
- We do not sell children's books.
- I know... - The children's books do not give money.
- I know... - And they are difficult to sell.
- Above all those of an unknown author.
- Very well, you are learning. - Read it.
- I don't need to read it.
- The title tells me everything I have to know.
- Read it or... I say goodbye.
- Oh yeah?
- Well, no, but you will lose all my respect
and it has cost him a lot to earn it.
A wise man once told me...
"You never know what treasures...
...there could be hidden from us."
- I think it's time to be that man again.
- What happen? What happened?
- I have a job! As a teacher.
Best of all, I will earn enough money for Jessica's
daycare and no longer have to live on the grant.
- Jo, we have to celebrate this! - Yes!
- I think Rowling girls should dress up!
And go out for a chocolate ice cream. I invite!
- Sounds very posh.
I take the phone and you to the bug.
- Say? - Joanne Rowling, please?
- It's me. - Oh, Miss Rowling.
I am Christopher Little.
I think he sent me his manuscript.
- Yes it is.
That was...
my agent.
He wants me to go to London to talk about the book.
- Do you have an agent? - I have an agent!
- As an agent, I would take care
to find a publisher for your book
as well as to negotiate all copyrights,
from distribution to film rights.
- For the cinema? Of Harry? - Don't get excited,
it is a standard clause in all contracts.
- Yes, of course!, is that it costs me a lot to process so much information.
- Jo, since it is the first time he does this
I suggest you find an adogado.
It will help you a lot to feel safe.
- I will do it. - Well,
There are still two more points that I would like to talk about.
The first: I want the name to be changed.
- Why? - Because it is a norm,
that boys don't read books written by women.
I think the best thing would
be to put initials like R. L. Stine.
- Very well, well, I'll think of something.
And the second point?
- A business tip.
Don't quit your job.
No one makes money writing children's books.
- Oh well, I write because I like to write,
not to get rich.
- That's a good attitude. - Yes.
And now, please do something to eat.
It makes me feel guilty.
- Well!
- J. Rowling.
J. Rowling. J. D. Rowling.
R
J. R. R. Rowling.
No, very Tolkien.
The fault is yours for not giving me a middle name mom!
- Perfect.
And Jo, keep in mind that these things take time.
Yes, we will be in contact.
- Is that it?
The truth is that it sounds very good.
J. K. Rowling.
- Recess is at 10:15.
The food at 12:00 sharp.
It rests until 1:50 p. m. and the day ends at 3:15 p. m.
Any questions?
- Are there breaks for good behavior?
- A joke! Very funny.
This is her class.
- Oh, do you have any other advice?
- Try not to panic. They smell fear.
It was just a joke, Miss Rowling.
Everything will be fine.
Welcome to the Leith Academy. - Thank you.
Well...
- "Harry potter and the Philosopher's Stone".
- Yes.
- It's a children's book. - It seems.
- It's not just a children's book, it's a...
- Ah, Bryony is very passionate about this work,
And I believe that passion is justified.
- I've never heard of that Rowling. Who?
- It will cost us to sell it. - I do not think so,
We will start with Doubleday and we will talk.
- Suggestions? - Random House rival?
Whitlett won't be interested, she forgot.
- Maybe Denise from Penguin. - Roger de Bantan.
- Monroe and Albert. - Yes.
- That's very good!
Do you want to try some glitter?
Is for me? Thank you!
- Jo, we've heard from Monroe and Albert.
- They have rejected it. - Voucher.
- Sorry
But don't worry, we still have more left and
I'll call you as soon as I know something.
- Thanks for calling.
Oh you did it!
Okay, take it!
- They don't want it -And a dozen are already here.
I do not get it,
How can they all have rejected it?
Do they not even read it?
- Hears...
Bloomsbury has just opened a division for children.
Why don't we send it to them?
- To those who published "The English Patient"?
- Why not try it?
- Don't think that an exam is a bad thing
Think of it as something that makes you stronger.
Agree? Start! In silence. Good luck.
"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"
"Reading a book feeds your imagination"
- Say? - Bryony Evans?
- Yes.
- I'm Janet Hogarth, from Bloomsbury Editions.
I would like to talk to you about a manuscript you sent me.
- Miss Rowling. You have a call in the offices
Wow, I'll watch the class.
- Thank you.
- Hello. Thank you.
- Jo Rowling. - Jo, I'm Chris.
- Chris! Hi. Tell me what's going on
- We already have an offer. Bloomsbury wants to publish it.
- Jo, are you there?
- Yes. Yes.
- You need help?
- If not!
I have to go back to my class
- If it is okay!
- Hey, Jo. - Yes?
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
- Yes!
- Sorry. Nothing happens.
Go back to class. Excuse me.
- It's not much! - You've gone mad?
It is a fortune!
- The initial print run of the book is quite small, only 5,000 copies will be printed.
If that number is exceeded, there will be royalties.
- When will it be in the bookstores?
- Well, first you have to go through layout and the galleys
so it will be at least a year until it hits the stores.
And when it's already published here,
I'll try to storm the American market.
But don't get your hopes up!
- Because few children's books... - give money. I know, I know
1,275 pounds.
I don't even know what to do with that much money.
- Go out and buy yourself something nice.
- It's huge!
Wait honey. Look: I take it from one hand and you from the other.
Do you want to shake hands? Okay let's go!
What a big bear!
One year later
- J. K. Rowling? - Yes, J. K. Rowling, it's me.
- Sign here.
Thank you.
- Good Morning!
"For Jessica, who loves stories,
for Anne, who also loved them, and for Di,
who heard this one before anyone else."
- I got it mom!
I got it!
Oh my goodness!
- Excuse me, we are a little late.
- Can you wait a few more minutes? - Yes of course.
A few minutes.
- I bought it for my son
But look where I can't leave it -Really?
- I have recommended it to everyone.
This Rowling is a great writer.
Hope you write another one soon.
- It gives me the feeling that it will
- Let's start now! - They're going to catch me!
You should sign up, it will be fun!
- Nervous? - Fully terrified.
I have never read in public before.
- I only regret that there are no more people.
Don't be sorry.
It's better for me like that, you know?
- List?
- Let's go!
- Hi all.
Thanks for coming.
I'm going to read the first two chapters, and then if anyone has any questions...
Hello!
...you can ask me at the end.
Agree?
Chapter One: The boy who lived.
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of 4 Privet
Drive were proud to say that they were
very normal.
They were the last people you would expect to find...
- For me, publishing a book is like having a child, Jo.
After giving birth there is still a lot of work to do.
- Yes, I understand. But why New York?
- Because the most important American publishers are in New York.
And it's easier... how would I tell you?
Get within range.
I have spoken to several major editors and
the response seems to be quite favorable.
- So you're interested?
- We'll know that today.
- Keep me updated, okay? - I will do it.
- Yes, well, I'm sorry that you haven't decided yet...
- Exactly, that's the offer on the table.
Yes, I know perfectly well that it is a lot of money for a children's book.
I am convinced that "Harry Potter" will be one of those
endearing books that children keep on their bookshelf
long after growing up.
That's what Valentin said
and then they passed their offer
- Do you have a 9? - A 9?
A 9. - I have an 8.
- Because you haven't called yet?
- Well, I do not know.
- Say? - Good evening Jo, I'm Chris.
- Hello Chris!
- Tomorrow morning you will receive a phone call
by Arthur Levine of Scholastic Books.
Be nice to him, just bought
publishing rights for the North American market.
- How much?
- Well, I don't want to scare you
but it has been for more than we expected.
- How much more?
-105,000 dollars.
- And casually Jo,
is much more than anyone has ever paid for a children's book.
- I do not...
I, I... I don't know how... no, I have no words.
- Congratulations, Jo.
- And don't be scared. - Thanks, I already am.
- Well. - Christopher!
- Yes? - Thank you! Thank you very very much.
- You're welcome.
- Goodbye.
- You know what this means?
Your life is about to change.
- Really, I never dreamed that they would pay me so much to publish...
- I'm not talking about money.
Your book is going to be published in America!
Children everywhere will read what you wrote.
Mom would be proud of you.
- I wish she were here
- I know... - America!
OMG!
- The people of America want to know
Is it a special night for you?
- Yes, not counting the birth of my daughter
and the publication of my first book
It is the most important day of my life.
- When will the next "Harry Potter" book be published?
- When I'm done, I guess.
- Did you hope to achieve such success and fame?
- No, not in a million years. Never.
I just wanted to be a writer.
- Tell me: What would you see if you looked in the "Mirror of Oesed"?
Okay...
That will remain a secret
- Thank you.
I'm going to see Jess.
- Can you save it? - Very well, I'll talk to the babysitter.
- Hey! Wake up domilona.
Hello! I'm back.
- How was the movie? - It was wonderful.
- I'll take you to see her, okay? - Voucher.
- You read me a little?
- It's too late.
But I will read you!
- Grandma's book?
- Again?
Of course!
"What would you see if you looked in the Mirror of Oesed?"
- Mommy?
- I'm going!
- Well
- I already have it!
- Chapter One: The River Bank
Topo spent the morning working
on spring cleaning in his little house.
First with brooms, and then with feather dusters.
Then climbed on stools, steps and chairs.
With a brush and a bucket of lime until it
ended with dust in the throat and in the eyes,
and splashes all over her hair...
In three years, J. K. Rowling passed
of being a mother who depended on unemployment benefits
to be one of the richest women in Britain.
In 2000, Rowling founded the Volant Charitable Trust,
to help children, single-parent families,
and children with multiple sclerosis.
Every 30 seconds, somewhere in the world,
someone starts reading a Harry Potter book.
It is estimated that they have been sold
more than 400 million copies of his books worldwide.
Joanne continues writing.
End.