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　　 >>庆祝哈利35岁生日:有关哈利波特的35个有趣花絮（下）

　　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.

　　生日快乐，哈利!根据哈利波特作者J.K.罗琳，这个大难不死的男孩是35年前的今天出生的。让我们用35个哈利波特主题的花絮来庆祝一番。

　　1. ROWLING AND HARRY SHARE A BIRTHDAY.

　　1. 罗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”).

　　他们都是在7月31日吹蜡烛(罗琳生日快乐!)。罗琳对她笔下的角色的影响不止这些：她说赫敏和她自己年轻时候很想，她最喜欢的动物是水獭——所以，这当然就是赫敏的宠物了。另外，邓布利多和罗琳一样都喜欢柠檬冻(罗琳说邓布利多“很有品味”)。

　　2. SHE INVENTED THE NAMES OF THE HOGWARTS HOUSES ON THE BACK OF A BARF BAG.

　　2. 她在一个呕吐袋的背面创作出了霍格沃茨学院的名字。

　　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)给全美在校儿童向罗琳提问关于哈利波特的问题。有个学生问她“什么促使你想出人物的名字以及霍格沃茨宿舍的名字的?” 罗琳回答说：”我在一个飞机呕吐袋的背面创造出了学院名字!这是真事儿。我喜欢起名字，但我也手机不同寻常的名字，这样我可以搜寻笔记本然后找到一个符合新人物的名字。“

　　3. EARLY ON, ROWLING WROTE A SKETCH OF THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE FINAL BOOK.

　　3. 罗琳一早就写出了最后一本书最后一章的草稿。

　　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.”

　　罗琳将《死亡圣器》的第一章写好，并锁在了保险柜里。对此，她称之为”垃圾“。但是有一点是真实的，“我早就把我认为最后一章的内容写好了草稿——但不是我写作的第一天，而是第一年的某一个时间。”她在一次采访中告诉哈利波特屏幕上的扮演者Daniel Radcliffe关于死亡圣器下DVD的特别花絮部分。“我一直知道——从一开始很早的时候——我就一直朝着我心中的那个画面努力，画面里海格背着哈利，他还活着但是谣传他已死去，在森林里，一直是这个画面。我早就知道他们在霍格沃茨会有最后一战，我知道哈利会迈入他的死亡，我打算让亡灵们——需要更好的一个词——回归，他们拥簇着他进入森林，我们都相信他是一步步迈入自己的死亡，他会最后出现在海格的怀抱里。

　　就是这个画面让海格存活了下来，罗琳说:“这对我来说是完美无瑕的，因为海格带他来到这个世界里，也由海格讲他带回来……这是我们一直努力的方向。所以海格从来没有生命危险。“

　　4. THE DEMENTORS ARE BASED ON ROWLING’S STRUGGLE WITH DEPRESSION AFTER HER MOTHER’S DEATH.

　　4.摄魂怪是根据罗琳在母亲死后与抑郁症的斗争而写就的。

　　Rowling’s mother, who had multiple sclerosis, died in 1990, after which Rowling suffered a period of depression. She would use the experience to characterize the Harry Potter’s dementors, creepy creatures that feed on human emotion. “It's so difficult to describe [depression] to someone who's never been there, because it's not sadness," Rowling told Oprah Winfrey. “I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it's that cold absence of feeling—that really hollowed-out feeling. That's what Dementors are.”

　　罗琳的母亲有多发性硬化症，于1990年去世，罗琳在这之后得了一段时期的抑郁症。她用这个经历来描绘哈利波特中的摄魂怪，一种靠人类情感为食的怪物。“很难向没得过抑郁症的人描述抑郁症是什么样子，因为它并不是悲伤，”罗琳告诉Oprah Winfrey。“我知道悲伤的感觉。悲伤是想哭、想去感受。但是抑郁症是一种冷冰冰的没有情感——真正虚空的感觉。这就是摄魂怪。”

　　5. SHE CREATED QUIDDITCH AFTER A FIGHT WITH HER BOYFRIEND.

　　5. 罗琳在和男友大吵一架以后创作出了魁地奇。

　　“If you want to create a game like Quidditch, what you have to do is have an enormous argument with your then-boyfriend,” Rowling said in 2003. “You walk out of the house, you sit down in a pub, and you invent Quidditch. And I don't really know what the connection is between the row and Quidditch except that Quidditch is quite a violent game and maybe in my deepest, darkest soul I would quite like to see him hit by a bludger.”

　　“如果你想要创造一种像魁地奇的游戏，你必须和你当时的男朋友吵得难舍难分。”罗琳在2003年谈到。“你走出房子，坐在酒吧里，然后你就创造出了魁地奇。我不知道吵架和魁地奇到底有什么联系，除了魁地奇是个很暴力的游戏，可能我灵魂最黑暗、最深处希望看见我男朋友被游走球击中。