哈利·波特：一段魔法史 Harry Potter: A History of Magic(2017)【完整台词】

Have a watch of this.Phew!

"As there is little foolish wand-waving here,

"many of you will hardly believe this is magic.

"I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly

"simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes.

"The delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins,

"bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses.

"I can teach you how to bottle fame,

"brew glory, even stopper death.

"If you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads

"as I usually have to teach."

In Harry Potter, JK Rowling created one of modern fiction's

most alluring and magical worlds.

But it's a vision based on more than mere make-believe.

A lot of the things that we read in fiction in Harry Potter

were actually believed in and enacted upon in history in the past.

What Jo has done is, she's taken known values,

she's taken familiar stories

and added them in her own beautiful blend.

My mandrakes aren't quite like that.

The search for magical knowledge has obsessed humans since time began.

From the age-old quest to conquer death...

..to master destiny...

..and overturn fate...

Look at this. Oh, my Lord!

THEY CHUCKLE

I think it worked.

..human beings have dreamt up magical ways of thinking.

I don't think everyone should believe in magic,

but I'm not sure I would trust anyone who doesn't,

in some way or another.

Accio.

This is the story of the real-life magic

at the heart of Harry Potter.

This year marks a special anniversary

and some very strange celebrations are under way.

We came all the way from Brooklyn, New York.

This is my mom. This is my daughter.

And these are my granddaughters.

Obliviate!

I've come as Moaning Myrtle because she has a lot of personality

for a dead person.Yes.

I'm Professor Minerva McGonagall and I can't do a proper accent

so I'm not really going to try.

Go on.

You're welcome to share my cubicle, Harry.

Aw...

It's been 20 years since an orphaned boy wizard made muggles

out of all of us.

There's something buried deep within all of us, I think,

that would like to get the owl and be told...

..you are not only unique and special,

I'm going to take you to where your people are.

I mean, that's such a seductive idea, I think.

That's not just something that children crave,

it's something that all of us crave.

I've kind of loved to be in that world.

I'd just love to be in that world.

I wish I was a wizard!

But Rowling's wizarding world is closer to our own than we think.

As Harry's great friend Hermione Granger once said...

Don't legends always have a basis in fact?

In The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis,

there is one of the most beautiful fictional worlds

that I've ever read, which is the world between the worlds,

which is a place where you're in a forest and there are multiple pools

and every pool you jump into will take you to a different world and

that to me has always been a library.

I was one of those bookish children

who never left the library if she could help it.

So, yeah, of course, to me, a library is truly a place of magic.

At the British Library,

all kinds of magical preparations are taking place.

And it's all to create a new exhibition

which aims to reveal the link between the real history of magic

and JK Rowling's writing.

And it's all there from the very first book.

Most of the JK Rowling material has never been exhibited before.

It's the first time it's going on display.

So this is a typed synopsis of Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.

In the early '90s,

this was written to be sent to agents and to publishers

to sell the story.

Yeah, she's having to sell Harry Potter.

You wouldn't think it, would you?

The conceit is that we muggles,

we sort of glimpse this hidden world

because we know some of the mythology,

but what we think we know is often wrong.

The real magic, as it were, is not quite as we believe it to be.

Using pre-existing myths or ideas of fantastic creatures and so on

was a way of giving texture to the world.

I think JK Rowling used magic

and the history of magic in an exceedingly sophisticated way,

and possibly there are aspects of it that your general reader

just might not even see.

"The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making

"the philosopher's stone,

"a legendary substance with astonishing powers.

"The stone will transform any metal into pure gold.

"It also produces the elixir of life,

"which will make the drinker immortal."

The pursuit of immortality was a quest to which medieval alchemists

devoted their lives.

And one amongst them became the stuff of legend.

"There have been many reports of the philosopher's stone over the

"centuries, but the only stone currently in existence belongs

"to Mr Nicolas Flamel, the noted alchemist and opera lover.

"Mr Flamel, who celebrated his 665th birthday last year,

"enjoys a quiet life in Devon with his wife Perenelle, 658."

In the stories, Nicolas Flamel,

he's the person who's actually discovered the key to eternal life

and is alive and well.

I hate to spoil the story, but he is based on a real-life figure

who lived in Paris in the early 15th century

and obviously, sadly, he did die,

but we do actually have his tombstone.

It's quite a magical object in itself.

Nicolas Flamel may not have achieved immortality,

but alchemists continued their search for the elixir of life.

And some of their mysterious instructions survive

on a magical scroll.

Let's take this one out of the box.

So, this is the...amazing... Oh, my God.

..Ripley scroll. There you are.

It's extraordinary.I think it's made about the year 1600...

and it tells you how to make the philosopher's stone.

Oh, look.

Isn't that incredible? Oh, it's so gorgeous. Look at this.

I've never seen...

anything quite like this before.

I would imagine few people have.

What fascinates me about alchemy is, you have this mixture of science,

actual science, right?

Because this was old chemistry,

so some of it is genuinely scientific.

They were observing phenomena that we recognise now as the basis

for chemistry. So it's just this fascinating hybrid, isn't it?

Yeah, combination of all these ideas.

And I'm really disappointed you haven't tried to make one.

Because the joke's on us if this works!

We'll make sure it does work.Yeah.

Many scientific discoveries were actually made as a result of people

carrying out that alchemical process.

There's a very famous painting,

it's by Joseph Wright of Derby,

and it shows a German chemist, alchemist,

in the 17th century.

He's trying to create gold and he's boiling a flask of urine!

He doesn't create gold, but he discovers phosphorus in the process.

The relationship between magic and science,

particularly in the early modern period, is extremely important.

What powers are there out there that we perhaps can't see

but which we can harness and adapt for our own use?

And to some extent, that is a form of magic.

Perhaps penicillin is a form of magic.

It's just magic that consistently works.

But even in our rational, enlightened age of today,

perhaps there's still a place for the old ways of thinking.

Magic is fascinating to me, clearly,

because I've spent a lot of time writing about it,

but I think that it connects to very important things about what it is

to be human and what human beings want and what they believe.

"When he had been younger, Harry had dreamed and dreamed of some unknown

"relation coming to take him away, but it had never happened.

"The Dursleys were his only family.

"Yet sometimes he thought, or maybe hoped,

"that strangers in the street seemed to know him.

"Very strange strangers they were, too."

Children believe in magic because they're starting to make sense of

and control their world.

But I think we all have that inside us.

The world is complex and largely unknowable,

and although we've moved on to science,

I think that we all, at heart,

retain a certain amount of magical thinking.

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