The man who discovered Harry Potter - BBC News 

Yeah she lucky

Becca S omgomg

She sure was lucky

"I gave the manuscript to my daughter Alice the night I got it and she wouldn't stop reading, so I had to tear it off her the next morning!"

Omg I got chills

pissicutza09 I think it's easier now to self publish and get your ideas and projects out there, though.

@@Flip_91FTW i think it depends. In matter of sharing culture and internet, for sure, you can post and publish e-books and whatever it comes to mind. But when it comes in editorial publishing, it has a totally different aproach, because it is a industry. They have to see long term relations to a literature product with actual customers, even if its a e-book at Amazon or at some streaming of literature.

Same could be said about your mother for not aborting you

Or because it didnt match their own preferences

Darn publishers having an opinion and trying to profit so they can still be a business

For me, the last year and a half

Chelsey Abbott Never too late to start Harry Potter

Katrina V and

Who's Alice?

​@@amritatalukdar4112 "I gave the manuscript to my daughter Alice the night I got it and she wouldn't stop reading, so I had to tear it off her the next morning!"

@@catherinerobilliard7662 Ah ok. Thanks. Must have missed that...

@Interest, Opinions & Everything in Between an excellent age to first read Harry Potter. Every generation has a great new writer, my grandparents had Arthur Conan Doyle , my parents had J R R Tolkien, and at 40 I finally had J K Rowling. I was beginning to dispair.

Oh dear... Perhaps ill go see piglet

He does!!

Omg yes I can't unsee it 😂😂

Zeg ik Niet 0

once you see it you can't unsee it

Blah blah blah... bullshit

Bullshit

@@ashishsharma-og4nl get out of here with that negativity 🤮

@@ashishsharma-og4nl if u think it is bullshit then stop commenting

@@ashishsharma-og4nl bitter much? i know that you're also believe that Harry Potter was really a phenomenon, and you just try to deny it. it's really known to more than hundred millions of people.

😂😂😂 LMAO

try something new please

@@shredark7192 Once the meme dies I will...

Still loving this memes about her saying stuff like this 😂😂

I have heard and read that Bloomsbury was the 13th, not the 23rd publisher. But it probably doesn't matter. They were all hopping mad afterwards.

Don't worry about that, because the way it works is that the authors receives maybe 10% or less per sales, while the publisher receives maybe 50% , 70% or something like that... so if Jo became milionnaire, he must be pretty wealthy as well! ;)

@@japaniamanga3191 she became a billionaire....jes doing just fine

I see what you did there 😉

i’m 31 but i’m literally jealous of this little Alice girl who got to read Harry Potter before any of us!!

Imagine how many potential Rowlings there are out there, whose careers ended with that rejection.

It happens every day.

Dumbledore would still be straight.

well now she's crazy because of the attention but it didn't mess up the harry potter franchise while written at least...

There is help, get help later on she'll reveal her true self. *Im not Rowling, im a clone created by the government.* Srsly, I just pretend she's not the one making a fuss these days

It's a good idea but children are different and prefer different styles of writing and well as different genres

@S. And that is why it is always wise to give stories a chance.

It's a hard world out there.

You are being dramatic

@@zunoyo1028 well, you know nothing about my life so...

@@zunoyo1028 books can be an escape from someone bad real life, most people are captivated into the story and wish they lived in that reality and they love reading to distract them. most people stay incase more books get published or it’s just a case of that the book has genuinely made there life better purely because of how good it is or they’re addicted to the characters and story lines. you know nothing about this persons life don’t assume

@@zunoyo1028 no they’re not stfu

I understand you.

Read them ther great.she also writes Detectiv Novels now ther alao Fantastic

@@indedgames4359so true. I’ve been a avid book reader back in the days and I repeatedly read this HP books during school summers since there are no phones or game consoles back then lol. Rowling’s imagination is wild, like how she get to imagine this comprehensive wizarding world is beyond me. I was even astounded how she was able to think ahead or got to connect the last 2 books with her earlier works, especially the Horcruxes and Deathly Hallows. They are so complex and just popped out of nowhere, yet she brilliantly connected those new unheard of stuff in the existing timeline and events. Really crazy brain and imagination, she really is one the great authors of this era, despite her recent controversies. Because I am not a reading nerd like before lol, I am now looking forward to playing Hogwarts Legacy on switch, maybe next year.

What

No, this is not correct. If it weren’t for the publisher then how would anybody have had the chance to purchase the book in the first place? This man accepted the book because he saw its potential when many other publishers had denied it from being published. Also how is ‘getting the proverbial ball rolling’ a pun? Do you know what a pun is?

Nope

@@baileyread5873 Rolling-Rowling mayhaps? :)

@@baileyread5873 I think he/she meant is how you pronounce JK's last name as sounded like bowling

Amor Luna Your childhood is a lie Harry Potter books are stolen ideas from Earthsea books by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Thats actually me talking about taekook

Amor Luna 0

@@overlord606 y'all people are really judgemental, what if she just got inspired by that, there's even some people who's trying to "prove" that she copied Star Wars LoTR etc. when basically all of the fantasy/sci-fi book had the same concept of the story.

"I gave the manuscript to my daughter Alice the night I got it and she wouldn't stop reading, so I had to tear it off her the next morning!"

I suppose he was technically something like the 40th to read it if 22 publishers and unnumbered agents passed. He was the first to connect with book.

What the fuck matters being the first, you dumbshit?

I visited the Levesden sets when they first opened, and the introduction explained that every publisher gets a stack of books all the time. And when books are turned down it's because they weren't really read, and the same was happening with Harry Potter. Even with the actual publishers, the book was at the bottom of the pile, but somehow it kept rising to the top. Eventually it got read, and I'm sure that's why it wasn't published before because nobody actually took the time to read. The same happened to Cathryn Cookson.

@@angelkotilainenHe used to let me stroke his big hairy bollocks

10 years? BRUH it has been 20 years since the philosopher's stone was released.

@@iongeorge7279 you didn't get properly what he said

I hope they don't butcher it

@@iongeorge7279 The series took 10 years to write, the winds of winter alone has taken about the same amount of time

I bought a Bloomsbury original last December from a second hand bookstore.

Same

Simon S. surely everyone who was alive in 1997 owns that version. Haha

The 1st published are worth so so much money now. To the right buyer of course. Mine that i got as a kid was written in by my mum. A happy birthday message in the front cover. No value now thanks mum

Simon S. I do! Original Potter Book Petition?

Mudbloods

Devashri Yadav Oi! Your not allowed to say the M-Word! I mean I think you muggle so its fine

#changeinyoutubealgorithm

What plot hole ?

They're probably not editors any more.

I started at 11 May 2017 finishing the series in Setember. I am currently 13

Sorry? The greatest man? Sure, because of him one of the best books ever was published. But the greatest man to ever live? Wtf bro. He is no Tesla, Newton, Aristotle....

@@VinyZikss yeah I agree, its just that when I saw this I was a bit too excited and this just popped into my head lol