J.K. Rowling Advised Harvard graduates to “Imagine Better”
faith| June 10, 2008 4:44 pm
J.K. Rowling, author of the famed Harry Potter series, spoke before Harvard graduates recently and encouraged them to “imagine better”. Rowling said:
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity; it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
Rowling went on to share her difficult experiences as a broke single mom, struggling to make ends meet as she was starting to write the Harry Potter series and that her failures made her stronger and wiser, to quote:
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Apparently, a fan asked JKR if Dumbledore ever fell in love to which she responded, “I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.” She received a prolonged ovation for this and added that she would’ve told everyone earlier had she known it would be lauded. JKR seasoned the revelation a little more by informing the audience that Dumbledore was actually in love with Grindelwald (his bestfriend who he defeated in a duel to win the Elder Wand) but was crestfallen when the latter turned to the dark arts.
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