Harry Potter Interview J.K. Rowling

[@alexanderdeadmansche]

Haha she is super excited about 30k copies. She had no idea how big it would become. One of the biggest franchises on earth

[@FirstOfJuneIX]

Actually the biggest !! I was still surprised

[@RogueCylon]

So rare to see such an early interview from a writer soon to be famous.

[@LilyEvansP]

It’s crazy to think how much joy and hope she brought to the world, all because of an idea that came to her one day (and that she had the talent to write of course)

[@GaryTongue-to3pw]

Yup, and that day was the day she had just finished watching the film "Troll", obviously.

[@HelenaEdelsztein]

True! There is not only Hope but amazing wisdom and its totally actual

[@hicktoni]

"It sold 30,000 copies which was phenomenal" - hahaha!

[@evanparker]

lolol

[@nathanpilgrim-howe3238]

Now she has sold about 500 million. Haha.

[@marvelstan_0114]

​@@nathanpilgrim-howe3238600M now

[@andrewtucker94]

30k is crazy in publishing!

[@james-r]

I remember in year 6 sitting on the floor of the classroom and the teacher reading a few pages of Harry Potter at the end of each day.

[@vercingetorixavernian8978]

Same! We’re getting old dude :D

[@randygoodall6229]

The story chooses the author miss Rowling... it's not always clear why

[@JayJay-nc7pr]

I was eight years old when I received the Philosopher’s Stone, it was July 1997, my birthday, my grandmother bought it for me, and I was hooked, twenty seven years later and I myself am writing a fantasy series, JK Rowling inspired me along with CS Lewis

[@vitobrebric9431]

whats the progress on your fantasy series i would love to know more

[@princepeterwolf]

You can tell she was super uncomfortable and nervous, I can't truly imagine the pressure she must've been under in later years of writing the series. This woman is such an inspiring example of how you can absolutely change the course of your life if you put your mind into it

[@fdpcompdm]

She's not that great

[@notpublic8304]

@@fdpcompdm you’re correct, she’s fantastic

[@samanthastanton6128]

She has to keep reinventing her space and as long as she keeps that up she'll be fine

[@Sinjinator]

IF you’re lucky enough, that is!

[@Chief]

@@Sinjinator We create our luck! The types of people who blame others success on luck are the types who often have untapped potential within themselves, and choose to not be proactive about achieving their dreams

[@Tarnished-Silver]

i remember reading the harry potter books over and over again in one of the most difficult times in my life, and I think her books are a great part of what kept my sanity together... this video is truely a treasure! thank you!

[@сиднипрескотт-щ3л]

Same

[@thaisvieira6576]

Me too

[@letsthink1991]

While reading the books I had often felt that this world is real and hidden from us and somehow JK Rowling came to know about it and must have interviewed the real Harry Potter to write about him. I kind of still believe the same😜

[@ShivamSingh-qz3kh]

You need to get a grip on reality.

[@maxivaneserafin3430]

@@ShivamSingh-qz3kh you need to have a sense of humor

[@user-or9cj3vk6t]

You need to know the occult but will forever regret you did. Especially in HP (Houses of Parliament)

[@tommy-bh6us]

Me too

[@josefineyoungmother]

@@ShivamSingh-qz3kh so sad you don't have any imagination isn't it?

[@tindomul8977]

She's Lily Potter here :)

[@meesteranonymous8177]

Red hair, green eyes.. Wait was lily potter a red head?

[@dannyjorde2677]

​@@meesteranonymous8177yup

[@сиднипрескотт-щ3л]

Funny cause she was asked to play Harry's mother

[@babbisp1]

​@@meesteranonymous8177 When Harry looked at Lily in the mirror of Erised: "She was a very pretty woman. She had dark red hair and her eyes - her eyes are just like mine, Harry thought, edging a little closer to the glass. Bright green - exactly the same shape" Book 1 chapter 12

[@jayel1471]

So crazy to see a world before Harry Potter. "Everyone will know his name" life imitating art.

[@objectobj]

2:36 wow! Hermione: "It's the forest of Dean. I came here once with my mum and dad. Years ago"

[@Alejojojo6]

Crazy that in 1999-2000, a boy aged 9 in Spain will go down with her mum through his town in the Basque coast (Northern Spain) one morning an see her books on a store. My mother saying "They say this books are good", and bought the two first ones to me. Then in a week I had read the first one and the HP and the Philosopher Stone became the first book I ever read in my life and I LOVED IT, initiating my love for reading at the age of 10 in a foreign country with a different language. HP was almost my age as I read so I basically grew with him. I was 19-20 when I read the last book of the series. Thanks for everything Jo! Love you, and the fact that you defend your political views made me even more loving of you. Truly inspirational.

[@LADY82PINK]

Por qué hablas como si fuera un gran desconocido si es literalmente el libro mas famoso de todos los tiempos xddd literalmente los libros de HP se imprimían en españa

[@emq6892]

'It would be wild if they were to make a film' It's crazy to see before everything. Imagine telling her they're making films and also a theme park.

[@kingkrysen]

This woman is a Godsend long live JK and Harry Potter

[@paulhoffmann3405]

Back in the time when she was writing the work of her life. She seems so open in this interview.

[@KateLove21]

This is so neat. "The Haunted School" :D These HP terms like Hogwarts are just so common these days so the fact she had to explain it and refer to it as such is so funny to see in hindsight.

[@GP71_OO]

KL haha so true

[@florriebellerose]

She will always be a role model and an inspiration for me. I have to add she looks extra beautiful here, I love her long auburn hair. She looks like Lily Potter. Thank you Jo for sharing your incredible mind with the world.

[@AlexanderR32]

I'll never understand what she did to have that extraordinary imagination to build a whole new universe in a children's book and the same way attracted to elders. My auntie is 53 and she loves HP Universe lol. Now JK Rowling is one of the most important writers around the world and one of the richest women in the UK. Even JK Rowling still making money with Fantastic Beasts I just can't believe how her name still so relevant!

[@zedrockiby]

Read Mastery by Robert Greene

[@mohakrokade3788]

@INFJTony truee...❤️

[@lexbogie1]

Yea. I would love to create and own something that could become a worldwide phenomenon too

[@GaryTongue-to3pw]

It isn't a children's book, dumbass. She lite ally says this at the beginning of the video, idiot.

[@KeeganStephen0914]

I don’t care what people say about J.K. Rowling. I agree with her trans views to be quite honest and am willing to look past some of her other liberal views I disagree with to see who she really is, what she accomplished, her impact on my life, and who she was during the early years. Her mind has given birth to so much inspiration in my life and was a MAJOR part of my childhood. My childhood was full of happiness and wonder because of her. I’m writing my own books right now hoping to publish just like she did

[@LADY82PINK]

Así que eres un transfobo de mierda y encima estás orgulloso, ok

[@maimoneattia]

This early JK interview is gold! It seems like a locally conducted, interview in Scotland. So amazing to see this!

[@benhavis2474]

She‘s already planned 7 books?? She seems very ambitious I hope she succeeds in her plans :)

[@tayluvofficial]

I feel your comment is targeted to sarcasm but she's already succeeded in her goals and Harry Potter is now one of the most read books in the world. Lol! This was prolly 22 years ago.

[@benhavis2474]

@@mcc2835 :)

[@emq6892]

@@benhavis2474 😂😂😂😂👏

[@emq6892]

Same. Hope she gets some recognition

[@alonzocruz671]

@@tayluvofficial feels like she is gonna make it big someday

[@petemk73]

Funny to see her not only joining the back of a queue, but also to have no-one recognise her

[@excession3076]

Read HP as an adult, at the time of release, only because my children were reading them. Now I was an avid reader as a child, you name an old school children's book and I've likely read it. I clearly remember reading the first chapter of HP and realising that I was witnessing a phenomena in real time. I knew without doubt the books would become as famous, or more, as TLTWATW for instance, and be read for generations. Very strange feeling at the time, not often you get to be there at the beginning and also knowing it's the beginning of something big/huge.

[@thomas-marx]

It sold 30,000 copies in the UK which is amazing to me!!!

[@RogueCylon]

Love that this is such an early interview. Brilliant!

[@tommydaniels502]

Seems like a promising young author. I wish her luck!

[@mariyamatia8726]

It already happened. 7 books and 8 blockbuster movies. Search for Harry Potter , u will know wat I mean. And 3 harry potter sagas

[@tommydaniels502]

@@mariyamatia8726 Oh my God!!! She made it then? That is incredible!

[@mariyamatia8726]

@Tommy Daniels if u r being sarcastic, don't be. Search for the novels read the books and watch the movies. I did countless times. And for the last movie premiere harry potter 7 part 2, they had the biggest movie premiere ever with the world's longest red-carpet and it was live. The potter fan has camped outside for 55 hours or maybe more before the premiere started. Watch it

[@evilwithinme]

@@mariyamatia8726 he was joking lmao

[@marvelstan_0114]

​@@mariyamatia8726Homie you gotta learn to take a joke

[@Mugglestrugglez]

Still blows my mind that the whole of Harry Potter came out of one persons mind. ONE MIND

[@DanielR.122]

The world would have been less without Harry Potter

[@futurez12]

It really surprises me that videos posted of her on here (especially her interviews as she was still writing the saga) don't get even a fraction of the views the videos do about the child actors who played (badly for the most part) the characters in the film franchise. It's even more baffling when you think of how many of the actual books were sold.

[@angelyuqi6709]

She has sold almost 500miliion copies 🥴

[@simonatheod6867]

Honestly I am very disappointed in these actors for being so disloyal to her during all the backlash she received.

[@Sinjinator]

I’m disappointed in the media for not giving the authors more credit and elevating them! Do you know how much research and work goes into a novel… well if the first one does well, then you might get an advance. I think she got some money out of this one. 😉 But before that, it’s a gamble and working and hoping!

[@veenovo4777]

exactly! they would be nowhere without her. most of them are quite average. not even highly skilled in their crafts. books > movies.

[@fernoliveira2170]

É pq foram postados a pouco tempo

[@Anthrax6989]

I wish I could go back in late 90s

[@meesteranonymous8177]

Me too, better times and better eorld

[@AprilRebecca]

“It chose me” just like the wands🥹

[@philipwilliams4834]

She’s fascinating to listen to

[@cyanrazorCel]

30,000 copies? Well, it probably won't go past that.

[@shemiahwalker]

You poor thing it's ok ,to be scared I would be too. If something would be something phenomenal. And it's can be a good thing,and I know I would be too honestly. I'm lover of writing too. Thank you for your inspiration.

[@darkdustlve5153]

What I think what's really amazin is that she kept her baby sacred and tight. And after the first success when she even felt more proven she was a boss queen and unstoppable. She just is an remarkable over the top talented human being. Such an insperation. And the news drama about transphobia is just bs. I'm on the same side as her. But she will grow from that and will give us another 7 books with an even better story. I believe in YOU Joanne

[@PinkCakesandTea]

She looks so much happier now. ^-^

[@stellaantoniadou4279]

and so much more smug...

[@meesteranonymous8177]

@@stellaantoniadou4279 says the trans activist

[@stellaantoniadou4279]

@@meesteranonymous8177 I'm not a trans activist, I don't know where that came from. Maybe you could call me an ally? I still love the Harry Potter universe and the books and everything about it. I separate the art from the artist. I do find her views on trans rights horrible though. And I do think she has become smug from the way she replies to the world's reactions to her sayings. She doesn't seem to care at all. I literally read somewhere that she said "Im too rich to care about what people say". Like, seriously!? And that kinda pisses me off. I do like watching old interviews of her though, like this one. And it pisses me off when some people don't realize that yes I can not agree with her views and still love her books the way I did as a kid. There's always a ton of grey tones between black and white.

[@meesteranonymous8177]

@@stellaantoniadou4279 her one specific view on trans is absolutely reasonable, and this coming from someone who hated her feminist crap(and still do)and her trying to please your crowd for years. Like the saying goes: "There are no chicks with dicks, only men with tits"

[@stellaantoniadou4279]

@@meesteranonymous8177 well, we can agree to disagree on that.

[@joinkusbelinkiusthethird]

Every interview I've seen with her she seems like a nice well meaning person

[@stephanydelg]

Just because she listened to a thought AND acted. Now WE have The Harry Potter series.

[@cheesymiccheeseballs8227]

Came to this after I watched the Vice video on Harry Potter that basically just paraphrased this entire special with like two interviews thrown in

[@mariamhesham8476]

She's brilliant! I love her!

[@joytekb]

30 thousand copies ? Well now its sbout 500 mln.

[@redmooonnn]

Wow. Harry Potter has gone a long way.

[@Phoenix-bi9bn]

If it were done right, it COULD make a great film. Wow that is comedy gold how. Incredible woman

[@apalboi1985]

what a genius where did she come up with this stuff?

[@HikikomoriDev]

Extremely attractive woman.

[@idkwtfimdoing]

"You're not going to make much money" ... *HMMMMMM*

[@Alejojojo6]

The Agent and JK must joke still to this day about it haha

[@PumpkinMozie]

It’s amazing how they’re conducting this interview in the middle of a busy cafe, and no one there is even remotely interested in her because she wasn’t famous yet haha. Just wait a couple years and she’d have been swarmed!

[@HT0369]

I thought it was a video of Charlotte Tillbury interviewing JK Rowling. She looks sooooo much like Charlotte here.

[@shugorchoudhury5376]

“I think if it was done right, it would make a great film” - possibly one of the most accurate predictions in modern times !

[@____uncompetative]

Nice handwriting

[@indedgames4359]

So thats why the forest of Dean was in HP 7

[@lnacvk4986]

She is so nice, so inspired mind

[@callmearc]

"remember you're not going to make much money" omg 😝😝😝😝

[@t.least.he.was.honest]

I saw her interview with wossy ,she is a genuine person and very likeable ,her young people she helpped stabbed her in the back

[@baileycrawly]

It’s true that generally you can’t support yourself off a handful of children’s books, but she managed to successfully do that. Harry Potter took the world by absolute storm, it was by far the biggest obsession I’ve seen in my lifetime, it made (and continues to make) a TON of money and got rave reviews and avid fans eagerly awaiting each future book. How many authors can say their children’s books are so successful across such a wide age range that their publisher can justify publishing the books again, unedited, with an adult cover because there’s an army of older readers buying and enjoying the series? She’s a success and a huge inspiration as an author. Sure she may not be making the best decisions lately whatwith beating a dead horse on Harry’s world, but, ultimately, if the money keeps coming and the readers continue reading, nothing else matters.

[@loveandsqualor6034]

Bailey Crawly She did not write ANY of the HP books. She is a fraud, just a face for a book written by a team of authors with a malevolent agenda.

[@MonicaLillis]

​@@kristinelarasebastian7492 Fr Chad Ripperger (Exorcist) with a KZbin channel says the Books were channelled. He advises people to steer clear !

[@Dzanarika1]

I love this intelligent and beautiful woman ❤❤

[@MidwestBoxin]

Shes worth 820 mil, thats absolutely insane lol i was there when this all unfolded back in the late 90s. Just crazy

[@Michael-ir3ri]

Big in Finland? She’s big all over the world now! I always notice Harry Potter when I travel and am reminded of what a phenomenon it is. Well done JK

[@NikhilKumar-bb1hf]

Hope she becomes successful.

[@RogueCylon]

“I love the idea that I may be big in Finland”. Love this! You can tell that Joanne is really fully buried in book 2.

[@chrislg4519]

Amazing interview. Does anyone know the reporter or interviewer? Cheers

[@DBCOOPER888]

It's interesting hearing about early Hollywood interest then, and now we are well past the entire 8 movie series that has made billions with all the actors becoming stars in their own right.

[@garland3688]

If anyone has any old Harry Potter books that they don’t want anymore, please contact me.

[@ericmagee9054]

Well safe to say she got her wish of becoming big in Holland! 😁

[@FF-oo8nz]

3:28 if he only knew....

[@mmc1086]

Love this beauty xox

[@djanitatiana]

Wand chose the wizard

[@MichaelCawley-vl6fq]

In any unique 1 off situations in life no1 to express exactly what it is your going through and to get every single word out/written would be like a therapy course opening up starting something thats in your mind and getting to the end uninterrupted (pay attention ms pa) when in mid free flow people might just come across as rude or something like that... The rudeness THEY LIKLY SEE IN MY OPINION IS YHERE REFLECTION OF THE IGNORENT THEY HAVE WITHIN THEMSELVES just thought I'd say.. kinda noted it previously and been building up.. so just freeing myself from it.. Amen ❤❤❤

[@augusto____]

J.K. is so cool

[@AnthonyDoesYouTube]

I love her before and after her villain arc, or glow up as they say

[@bm.6349]

She’s always been great

[@NoahPurdyFR]

For some reason I thought this woman was scottish

[@davidmatos5657]

She is the most talented writer in the world! No one come close to her! Queen of writing!

[@mattclayer6541]

Stephen King is the King of writing. JK Rowling is the Queen of writing.

[@Sinjinator]

Ummm, ever heard of J.R.R.Tolkien? G.R.R.Martin? And others with secret first names, like PN Elrond? They are the best! 😂

[@mattclayer6541]

@@bsell5175 And why exactly is he a pedo?

[@shadearca]

@@mattclayer6541 have you read It?

[@jinaaaaa8080]

Jkr was a different person back then. She knew perfectly well that her story was a traditional fantasy for a child being abused and found himself actually amazing

[@jinaaaaa8080]

It is just puzzling to see her trying to get everything and every holes of her stories fixed right now by wildly expanding the worldviews. She is trying to do more than “just selling more books” now.

[@robbiemcc4355]

If you have an opinion why can’t you voice it? There are millions of graves dotted around the world that fought and died for that cause.

[@hela99]

Wonderful :)

[@Simon-pl2zi]

what year is this interview - does anyone know?

[@garland3688]

1997/98

[@richardcollins1480]

It’s a cold & windy day in Edinburgh so is either late winter or autumn. She says her second book is out (published mid-1998) and she’s writing the third but she hasn’t signed any film rights (WB obtained those in early Oct 1998) so my bet is September 1998. Earlier that year she signed with Scholastic for $100K+ and a month later WB would pay a ‘seven figure sum’. For an author whose second book was hardly out this was all amazing. Within 12 months she went from poor author to millionaire all off the back of just one book.

[@сиднипрескотт-щ3л]

December 1997

[@Alejojojo6]

@@garland3688 Crazy that in 1999-2000, a boy in Spain will go down with her mum through his town in the Basque coast one morning an see her books on a store. My mother saying "They say this books are good", and bought the two first ones to me. Then in a week I had read the first one and the HP and the Philosopher Stone became the first book I ever read in my life and I LOVED IT, initiating my love for reading at the age of 10 in a foreign country with a different language. HP was almost my age as I read so I basically grew with him. I was 19-20 when I read the last book of the series.

[@masterroshi7921]

She is so gorgeous I always thought she would be quiet bland in physical features, wow was I wrong. Obviously a brilliant mind.

[@coconvvts]

" If it were done right, I think it could make a great film yeah "

[@drakirolopez7859]

All the films were horrible, bless her heart

[@CBAmbitio]

@@drakirolopez7859Yeah, no.

[@Blisteryn]

She is like the Nirvana of literature, i mean, she came from nowhere and became a phenomenom.

[@Polak258]

What is the source of this video? Where is it taken from?

[@benwakefield93]

I think it might be from her Blue Peter appearance. She refers to the "Smarties book prize recently," so I think this is likely late '97 early '98.

[@mycenth22]

what a great place to write

[@patrickmanway290]

There's not much money in kid's books. Not if your JK Rowling!

[@Laufield]

I hope my books will better than her. I wrote four novels: Laufield and the Secret Laboratory Laufield and the Revenge of Evil Fox Laufield and the Game of X-Hybrids Laufield and the Beast of Darkness

[@Pleidison]

Good luck🙏

[@ArranVid]

So is she a natural redhead? I have usually seen her with blonde hair these days.

[@garland3688]

She’s a natural red head. The publicity department makes them go blonde.

[@ArranVid]

@@garland3688 Thank you for your reply :-). That's a shame, she should embrace her natural red hair!!!

[@garland3688]

@@ArranVid you’ve seen her lately? She has gone back red.

[@ArranVid]

@@garland3688 Cool 🙂

[@ArranVid]

@@garland3688 I have read most of the Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling Cormoran Strike novels. I haven't read any of the Harry Potter novels, but my sister has. I have seen the Harry Potter movies 🙂. I haven't read the last Cormoran Strike novel, but I have read all the others 🙂.

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

Gorgeous woman.

[@Tarnished-Silver]

And now extremely rich aswell

[@emq6892]

Beauty

[@rmd9746]

Btw she looks like Hermione in here

[@Memory_visit]

Im glad she got her teef fixed.

[@demoscratos4577]

There is a such thing as “Scottish Blood “

[@toohdvaetihom7088]

She looked better before plastic surgery

[@tgazza1587]

sad that the cafe shes in has burned down now...

[@WH-hi5ew]

Witchcraft at work... coincidence I think not!

[@weemanjuanjo]

The fire was not as bad as first feared and the cafe has now reopened.

[@pennycaldwell8141]

Shakespeare added over 1700 words to the english language. It's yet to be determined how many J.K. will offer;)

[@meesteranonymous8177]

My favorites are mudblood and pureblood

[@dannyjorde2677]

She invented Muggle for people like you 👍

[@Starfish0.]

lol why so jealous 😂

[@G0ETTIN]

Crumple-Horned Snorkacks 😂

[@rohitrudra8550]

❤🇧🇩

[@buddhistjustbud]

♥🖍

[@prasad5243]

Is she did something to her face

[@garland3688]

She aged.

[@prasad5243]

@@garland3688 then ok

[@eugenia.shou.]

I think she visited a dentist for sure. Plus, having so much money and being that popular, you would definitely want to do something about your appearance.

[@tayzk5929]

She's never gonna make it!😄

[@WH-hi5ew]

I cant see a kids book about wizards really taking off.

[@thomas-marx]

Phenomenal not amazing 😊

[@crazylegs5063]

Honestly I want her

[@drakirolopez7859]

Not me...