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  • Shes awesome and funny! =D You kick ass JK!

  • @Brady2k10 She also drew inspiration from real historical figures like Nicolas Flamel. So you're wrong about her "copying"

  • @Brady2k10 your comments are getting repetitive -.- you have already established that you think she copied LotR. There are obviously going to be similarities between them and many other fantasy books. I love both HP and LotR and I think both authors did a brilliant job of creating their own unique world. JK Rowling put a lot of effort and research into writing Harry Potter, to come up with her own original characters, spells, places, heck she even created a whole new sport. She also drew inspir

  • bEST SPEECH EVER. LOVE HER.

  • My birthday is July, 31 . Thanks for all jokes about HP that I get. Anyway if wizards are like her I'd tell Hagrid to go on 3 magic letters no matter how big he was.

  • Love this speech

  • ah she's so funny!

  • JK ROLING YOU'RE A GENIUS!!!! (i think i spelt genius wrong....)

  • @Puppylove24100 No, you're good ;)

  • @Puppylove24100 No, but you spelled "spelled" wrong...

  • @Puppylove24100 You DID spell "Rowling" wrong...

  • Brady2k10 if no one ever makes a new idea then how will anything be made. She mentioned merlin once in the philosophers stone and never again and it's used in loads of books... So ur wrong actually :)

  • What a lovely woman.

  • I am VERY jealous of that audience...I'm sure I would faint if she would speak to me face to face. 

  • I just want to say to jk rowling out there she has such a bright imagination and amazing skills in writing she also is very beautiful and i just want to say thank you you brought joy to every harry potter fan including me thank soo much

  • She's real cute!!!

  • Then HBS increased the number of setback from one to three in their admission essays :)

  • I love this.

  • 1:45 lol I love how half of the audience went like ".....what did she just say?"

  • I would never have expected top comments like those on a video about Harvard.

  • if you are surprised by jk rowling thinking of dumbledore as gay, you've obviously never read the book and experienced his character. what does it matter?

  • And so begins the search for FireUndertheBridge and Williamusher 's comments...

  • @EmmaLilly007 Just ctrl f when showing all comments. But not worth it.

  • @Brady2k10 seriously dude...did you seriously just write two paragraphs bashing on her because her books are similar to lotr?im a big lotr fan and you're making us look bad just by commenting...just accept that she wrote great books and stop being a hater...

  • @Doommage33 shut up she copied a lot why dont you accept that

  • @Brady2k10: Ah, a butthurt Tolkien fan. It gets better! :D You guys are worse than Twilight fans in your HP bashing since you should really know better. If anyone was aware of fantasy archetypes it was Tolkien. You do him a dishonour with your childish ravings. In any fantasy fiction you'll find similarities if you look for them. Harry Potter has similarities with everything from LotR to the Narnia series to the Eragon series and these all have similarities to each other in turn. Get over it. :)

  • @mieroth no i wont get over someone copying anothers work and getting millions for it, its fraud in my eyes

  • @Brady2k10 rofl. oh silly

  • @FluXez00 you lot are the silly ones, you deny that shes copied many things from lotr when the evidence is right infront of you clear as day, shes not original and shes overated and so is harry potter, its not about me hating, i dont hate the woman, nor do i hate harry potter, but in my opinion i think she stole a lot from lotr and twisted them slightly, you lot are the silly ones, you cant take someone elses opinion haha you lot are a joke. And you flu are pathetic.

  • @Brady2k10 I am not denying anything. No one owns the folklore. You are free to do whatever you want with it except destroy it and Tolkien and Rowling aren't doing any of that. Tolkien has a amassed a universe of his own and Rowling has amassed a world of her own. Similarities do exist, as such in other series. It will always happen. You can if you want and continue with this but I am not, though I am sure you'll meet a few who will agree with you but you'll cross many that would disagree.

  • @FluXez00 ok so its ok if i just go and copy some of her characters, ill make a young warlock OH WAIT its already been done.. merlin. She probably copied from that as well. Shes seen lord of the rings and merlin, and shes combined them and made her own world which is to me not acceptable, its just copying and not coming with anything original enough, shes overated, shes a fraud, go ask her to write something original and see if it makes millions i doubt it altho it will thx to HP now

  • @Brady2k10 That's a nice Ad Hominem you've got right there. Such great argumentative skills...

  • @Midfield401 cheers

  • i cant understand british english very well but i do believe that she said "gay wizard"?

    really?

  • @AsianHideOut Dumbledore is gay. no joke. it doesnt really contribute to the story and she decided Dumbledore is gay after the last book was released. which makes it all the more stupid. im not homophobic or anything, its just that changing a book after you released it is kinda unprofessional.

  • @paulinotou She didn't change it after she wrote it. She said "I have always thought of Dumbledore as gay." She didn't put it in the book explicitly because she didn't feel it was necessary to do so. Characters take on a life of their own inside a writers head, I'm sure there is loads more she could tell us about all of the characters if she wanted to.

  • @debrucey no she came out saying Dumbledore is gay. which i have no problem with, but you cant decide something after the fact. it makes her look bad.

  • @paulinotou She didn't decide it after. She decided it a long time ago, but she only just told people. Her EXACT words were: 'My truthful answer to you...I always thought of Dumbledore as gay.'

  • @debrucey Plus, as the writer, she can decide something after the fact if she wants to. It's not like it contradicts anything in the books.

    I personally think it explains Dumbledore's relationship with Grindlewald.

  • @paulinotou Actually she said that to the writers of the movies while they were writing the screen play for Half Blood Prince. They had originally included a line about Dumbledore loving some woman and she told them it wasn't possible. And it does contribute to the plot, a lot. You obviously missed the bit with Dumbledore and Grindelwald; Dumbledore loved him and that's why he didn't see the bad in him.

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  • "I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and decided to redirect all my energy into the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else I might have never found the determination to succeeded in the one arena, that I believed I truly belonged."- -3

  • @BradyAK47: Ah, someone's envious. It's not pretty you know. :)

  • @HelloFade2 Troll............That is all.

  • @HelloFade2 And you should be at a drug rehab program to fix your serious drug problems.

  • Oh god this woman. THIS WOMAN. I love how inspiring and and simultaneously humble and hilarious she is. It's probably why she's the best thing that happened to my childhood.

  • Who could ever dislike this? Rowling is my hero!

  • are you fucking kidding me talking harry potter vs twilight bs here in the comments? ppl are seriously listen to what she is saying and stop stupid teenager wars in the comment section fucking retards.

  • Why do they keep laughing at everything? College students love to dick ride people....It's not that funny.

  • "Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you have lived so cautiously that you might as well have not lived at all. In which case you failed by default."

  • And I absolutely love her commencement speech. It's one of the best I've ever seen before-- her voice is really powerful and gives strong message out(: I think she's one of the most inspirational people (Along with Morrie Schwartz and Randy Pausch) especially being an author and woman and being so successful(: And she always manages to add light humor into her speech which makes her all the more amazing :D <3

  • I've grown up with HP series, and it made me a better person...! if there's any reason that I still believe in magic its you!

  • She is so brilliant.

  • Thank you. You have made my childhood.

  • I love that the loudest cheer is from "there IS an expiring date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction."

  • I came here to watch a brilliant speech from an amazing woman who has touched so many lives through her work and the top rated comments are about petty fights about twilight and some guy being a twat? Seriously, the top comments should be about what an amazing speech this is and how lucky we all are to have JK write such fantastic novels. WE LOVE YOU JK ROWLING! Thanks for your sharing your amazing imagination with us!

  • does anyone have the text version?!!!!

  • Thumbs up so JK can see this in hopes she will go watch "A Very Potter Musical"

  • In a word: Brilliant. In wisdom, luminescent beauty and inspiration, you are truly brilliant.

  • lol JK is something of a comedian

  • "for the giddy delight of becoming a gay wizard!" :D

    LMAO!

  • I can't believe the comments with the most thumbs up are filled with insults. There is no honour in insulting anyone, even if that person insulted in the first place. Grow up, people.

  • gay wizard joke....best joke EVER

  • you truly are the best person ive ever known, jo.

  • You just can't help but laugh, cry and clap when you watch this video.

  • @jeleung you can`t always blame your parents for things that you do! Once your old enough your on your own.

  • i don't understand when she said " there is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you on the wrong direction?' can someone clarify pelase?

  • @jeleung there's an expiration date. As in, there comes a point where you have to take control of your own life, not blame your parents for things that go wrong.

  • I am the greatest human being in the history of mankind.

  • Brilliant Women ever! 

  • her story is so touching she went from being a single mother living on welfare to a self made billionaire.

  • SHE IS A MILF

  • @folladordeprostis

    and you are a jerk.

  • @californialinchen You don't like MILFS??

  • honestly her rags of riches story is kinda romanticized. she had a job but gave it up to pursue her dream of being a writer. that is why she was on welfare. not because of unfortunate events. however im glad she did that, because Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Pt.2 was a badass movie

  • @paulinotou Actually, I think the job you're referring too was the one she had when she was living in Portugal with her first husband, after the divorce she moved back to the UK and starting writing the Harry Potter books.

  • @Magikalic yah my point was her rags to riches wasnt as great as it seems. she was a very educated person from a middle class background. she chose to go into welfare so she can write the harry potter books.

  • @paulinotou: Not really. She was living in Portugal working as a language teacher when her marriage fell apart. Naturally she'd want to move back home after such an event but she couldn't find work in the UK and therefore ended up on welfare.

  • Hogwarts

  • I wish i was there.

  • 26 got Snaped.

  • rock bottom = solid foundation

  • JK proves imagination has the power to rock the world.

  • "And convince myself that I'm at the largest Gryffindor reunion."

  • i would choose wizard over the other occupations if i could lol, it sounds the most interesting

  • u say shakepeare, i say jk rowling

    u say bram stoker, i say stephanie myers

    u say mark twain, i say christopher paolini

    u say jrr tolkien, i say chuck palahniuk

    u say c.s. lewis, i say darren shan

    94% of casual readers are too mainstem readers. Real potter fans will repost. #thumbs up

  • @AustinObviously ... Wow. Please stfu.

  • @AustinObviously real book fans wouldnt even think of this lame "you say this, i say this", all the authors you mentioned are very very good and shouldnt be shunned because they are "classical" or "mainstream".

  • @AustinObviously stephanie meyers is your idea of non-mainstream? I do hope you're trolling.

  • @AustinObviously real potter fans don't have anything againstShakespeare b/c he inspired romance.real potter fans dontprefer sparkling forest fairies over a vampire who sold his soul from the heartbreak he felt when he thought his wife was killed.Real potter fans LIKE IT when white boy &his slave become bestfriends.We like Tolkien, one of the most idolized &simply brilliant authors of all time.We LIKE a magical land behind a wardrobe.I

    think you've forgotten what it means to be a potter fan.

  • OWNED.

  • @fileunderthebridge HARRY POTTER WAS FIRST.... TWILIGHT WAS SECOND. so shut it.

  • @FireUnderTheBridge

    Harry Potter series: 1997-2007

    Twilight series: 2005-2008

    "Jo Rowling is a terrific writer while Stephanie Meyer can't write for darn, she's not very good" - Stephen King (aka. one of the most successful and influential writers of our time)

  • @FireUnderTheBridge LMAO your stupidity makes me laugh.

    how can you copy something the was published 8 years after your first book? hmm..

  • @FireUnderTheBridge Harry Potter came out in 1997 and Twilight came out in 2005, so how can Rowling copied something that was published eight years after her work. Maybe you should do some research instead of smoking crack.

  • @FireUnderTheBridge You are using an lousy excuse to falsely justify your claims, how did Rowling copied from Twilight or where is your evidence. Harry Potter was published in 1997 and Twilight was published in 2005. So how Rowling can copy something that was published eight years AFTER her first book? There was no changes to her book. There is no Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone version 2 or any version 2 of any of the Harry Potter books. So get your facts straight.

  • @FireUnderTheBridge How in the HELL does Harry Potter copy twilight?! I havent even read twilight to know that theres absolutely no similarity between the two. Pretty sure theres no creepy vampire in harry potter that falls in love with Hermione....

  • @FireUnderTheBridge You are such an idiot. How can Rowling copy something that came out after her first work? Harry Potter first came out in 1997 and Twilight in 2005. This really paints the picture of you Twilight fans. You try to taint Rowling's image to make yourselves look better. But you failed to taint Rowling's image and you make Twilight and the fans look like fools who can't count. Go to school so you can learn numbers and how to count.

  • @KatzYellowknight umadbro?

  • @FireUnderTheBridge You're the one who's mad. Accusing Rowling of copying Twilight with no evidence, big similarities or logic behind it. It is clear that you are jealous of Rowling having bigger success and better books than Twilight, then you Twilight fans try to taint her image with lies and stupidity. 1997 comes before 2005. But if and when you graduate that preschool remedial that you keep failing and repeating, then you will learn how to sort the years in order and know how they work.

  • @KatzYellowknight Nope, Twilight is obviously the better book because it's more realistic and vampires are real. Who's ever heard wizards in real life?? God you're the one who's dumb

  • @FireUnderTheBridge Says the guy who can't even count. Rowling has a better success and has been praised by Stephen King. Vampires are real? First you proven you can't count, then you believe that 2005 is before 1997 and now you believe that Vampires are real? You are more stupid than I thought. Rowling made more money and also Rowling beat Meyers in the bestselling of the decade. I guess Rurouni Kenshin is better than Twilight because Samurais are more 'realistic' than vampires.

  • @FireUnderTheBridge If Twilight is better than why you are jealous and try to throw lies and stupidity on Rowling?

  • @KatzYellowknight Rob Schneider is a carrot.

  • @KatzYellowknight Sometimes I tire of trolling :/

  • @FireUnderTheBridge That means you tire from yourself since you're the one who is trolling. First you accused Rowling of copying Twilight which isn't true because Harry Potter came before Twilight, you proven that you can't count, I really don't know how Rob Schneider is involved in this and throwing obvious lies and stupidity just to make Twilight look better. How Rowling copied Twilight and what are the similarities? Remember, 1997 comes before 2005, something you haven't figured out yet.

  • @KatzYellowknight *Sigh* Do you really think I give a shit about either book? Your the stupid flamer who goes on and on trying to prove their point. What are you hoping for? Do you want me to say "Oh your so observant and introspective, you've won me round to your side. Praise be to the YouTuber who knows most about this topic" or we're you looking for other people to proudly give you a thumb's up and a cyber pat on the back? God, I WISH I WAS YOU!!!!!

  • @FireUnderTheBridge Knowing how the years work isn't rocket science you dope, it is a 1st grade topic. You are the stupid flamer who accused Rowling of copying Twilight with no evidence, big similarities or logic backing it up. I do have thumps up and you have "too many negative votes" on some of your comments, but again you are too stupid to know how to count. But it is clear that you are proud of not knowing how to count or otherwise you figured out what's wrong with that.

  • @KatzYellowknight Throwing in random FACTS about Stephen Kings and shite about samurais... It was hardly the years for you though was it? It was "Look how much I know about all these things and how I can weave them into my rant on how I hate how Twilight fans think Twilight is better" Here's a few important FACTS to prove that you are a flamer and therefore a cretinous retard: I've never read Twilight, I typed JK Rowling into the Youtube search bar, I clicked the first link and started trolling!

  • @FireUnderTheBridge The real fact is that you are the retard who can't figure out a lot of basic things that a preschooler could figure out. By the look at things that nobody likes and respects you and people agreeing that @Katzyellowknight speaks the truth. One of them is that you can't count so calling him a retard is like the pot calling the cattle black. The only proven thing around here is that you are nothing but an arrogant idiotic troll and is proud of it.

  • @FireUnderTheBridge Like you are any different you dumb loser who can't count better than a preschooler. But you wouldn't know anything about that unless if you graduate that preschool remedial that you keep failing and repeating. Nobody likes a ignorant troll like you. I wrote the facts that samurais are real just like you stated that vampires are real, but it is clear that you are too stupid to even remember which explains a lot. So do everyone a favor and graduate that preschool remedial.

  • @KatzYellowknight Looks like someone can't come up with a better insult than 'preschooler' apart from adding 'remedial' after it. Looks like your grammar's a bit wrong too sonny. "... know anything about that unless if you graduate..." might want to reach up your mum's gash and retrieve the lobe of brain tissue you left up there so so long ago. Tell you what, next time I'm in there, I'll have a good rummage around for you. Went on your page by the way... looks like no one likes you *sad face*

  • @FireUnderTheBridge It looks like you can't figure out obvious clues that everything about you is bullshit and annoying. No one does like and respect you even more because you are a lot more annoying and stupid. At least Katzyellowknight has thumps up of his comments and you have a couple of too many negative votes in a small amount of time. But it looks like that Katzyellowknight is 100% right, you don't know how to count and that you're a complete moron who is proud of it.

  • @FireUnderTheBridge Moron, get a clue. People attack you because you made a bullshit comment about Rowling coping Twilight and now you can't figure out why everyone is attack you? You are really an uneducated moron who can't get any intelligence in his pathetic life. You say that no one likes Katzyellowknight after his comment got thumps up and you got some too many negative votes, that explains about your IQ, clearly you have none. Thumps up if anyone agrees. Rowling rocks and you suck.

  • @FireUnderTheBridge FUCK UP

  • @FireUnderTheBridge

    whose ever heard of vampires in real life?

  • @FireUnderTheBridge

    in what part did rowling copy meyer?

  • @FireUnderTheBridge hahahaha ahhh 10?

  • Jo, I love you. You saved my life.

  • Jo, I love you. You saved my life.

  • i read all the books and now that im 19 i think its shit

  • @malikidmc Why??? I'm 20 and I still think its great. :)

  • @malikidmc

    You think I'ts shit because you haven't learned how to look at it as an adult would...

  • J.K. ROWLING REPRESENTING.

    LIKE A BOSS.

  • Hoes on my dick cuz i look like J.K Rowling.

    Thank You Based God

    

  • I can't believe people didn't like her speech! IDIOTS!!!

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  • @Brady2k10 Literature experts from Harvard, Yale, Cambridge and the best colleges in the world says different. Rowling followed what she suppose to do with her characters and genre. Their theories also say Rowling did not copy from LOTR so what make you think you are better than the best literature and fiction experts in the world? Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung has theories say that your bullshit and you are the fraud. You are nothing but ignorant prejudice troll.

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  • @Brady2k10 Yeah, it is obvious that you don't know anything about education since it is clear that you never experience education in your life. Even Peter Jackson's theories says she did not copied. How she can pay Carl Jung? Jung past away before Rowling was born and Campbell past away years before the Potter books was published. But their theories still stands against your bullshit. That is an example how of a ignorant moron you are. How about go to school for the first time in your life?

  • @Brady2k10 You are so stupid than I thought. How can she pay Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich, two rivaled politicians who was able to put their political agendas aside to have their own theories in Rowling's defense against your bullshit. I also have Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw, two of the greatest journalist also have theories against your bullshit. I also have big time directors such as JJ Abrams and PETER JACKSON also have theories against your bullshit. Who do you have? No one.

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  • @Brady2k10 Says the uneducated drug addict who clearly spent his childhood at a whorehouse when you should have gone to school. Yeah, anyone who have brown hair is a ripoff of LOTR and a sidekick with red hair also. You are an moron. You can see something like that in school and you would know that if you gone to school. You really are an moron who assumes that Rowling copied just because a few similar appearances. I wonder why no lawsuit by the family was issued.

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  • @Brady2k10 So you rather be a complete moron and believe everything that your crack, drugs and uneducated brain make you believe? I have never seen anyone more messed up than Lindsey Lohan and Amy Winehouse combine and being proud of it. Don't you think that Toklien might have copied characters off of King Arthur? I don't see many character similarities but using the rules of a character concepts just like many other fiction writers follow. I see no lawsuit by the family or anyone else.

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  • @Brady2k10 It is not surprising that a moron like you to refuse any education influence or help. But when you decide go to school, accept any educational help and lay off the drugs, you'll see how wrong you are. Even Star Wars also has the same character concept as Harry Potter, LOTR and many others. But you are too stupid to know the rules of character concept of fiction writing. See kids, Brady2k10 is an clear example if you don't go to school and doing drugs. You become an idiot.

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  • @Brady2k10 Bullshit to a lazy moron who is getting pwned left and right. Your country must be embarrassed that you are slowing down their entire IQ percentage. You are scared of me to refuse to read and think how Star Wars followed the same character concept too. You also scared to go to my videos that I sent you. So you hate Japan much as having any education in your small brain. But as many others, I don't care what happens to you. I don't care if you die stupid.

  • @toboebluefighter yep totally right, but let me say, im surprised at you, ive never known someone from japan with your attitude, i like japanese people and my judo teacher is japanese, as is 3 of his students, and they are my friends and they are nice people, worthy of respect, this isnt a joke, i wont argue with a japanese person, i refuse to, to be honest i dont care if she copied or not, although i think she did but whatever, im not bothered anymore, she did or she didnt, whatever.

  • @toboebluefighter just noticed your from japan, i refuse to argue with someone from there out of respect

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  • @Brady2k10 Peter Jackson is one of the people who knows LOTR more than anyone else on the planet and still he denies any wrong doing. You are an idiot to believe any information that your crack and drugs tell you instead of the information that experts with the highest education tell you. You are an idiot to not realize how similar in a few appearances due to hair can be. But when you start laying off the drugs and crack, then you start to realize everything.

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  • I just graduated from the same place that she had the graduation she talks about here, I SO wish that she could have done this at Exeter! Beautiful beautiful speech.

  • She is the HEROINE of all us children's authors, hands down, period. Good for her - good for imagination - good for living inside magic! Bravo!

  • 26 are muggles

  • @pd4250 So whilst most kids are out playing in the garden and watching T.V. and having mates and doing there homework and getting in trouble and all the other things that go to make a childhood that creates a well rounded, insightful and deep human being, you 'potterheads' were getting all that from a frankly poorly written book. It's so tragic but, due to what I have said, you don't have the insight to see it. You are a sycophant.

  • amazing, amazing woman. One has to find his or her true, true passion: no lying to oneself.

  • Fuck off J K you stupid cunt

  • 2000th like :)

  • She is an amazingly eloquent person.

    Thank you for my childhood, J.K. Rowling.

  • @ShakespeareanSnidget Hay, have you ever thought that you might be a bit of a sad act? Did J K Rowling really give you your childhood? What a depressing cunt you are.