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Celebrating Obscurity: A Tribute To J. K. Rowling


A single-mother or father rose from obscurity in 8 many years to become these days the best woman celebrity, the richest woman (even richer than Her Majesty, the Queen of England) in the U.K, all through the power of imagination expressed through the power of her fingers!! She held the world spell-bound (270 million copies of her publications offered so far).

Publishers, Movie-makers, Agents, musical artists, children and mother and father are all feeding from her fingers.The stocks of publishing companies rose in obedeience to her graceful fingers. A treasure, dug out of the obscure cafes of Edinburg! A pen of destiny, buried beneath a sequence of individual misfortunes, wrote and waited for 7 many years, prior to discovery.

I am talking of the one, and only creator of the ‘Harry’ that smashed every available ‘Potter’s’ vessels. I mean the one who broke the global box office data- Ms. J.K. Rowling, who conquered and arrested world interest in purchase to teach the the world the best lesson of all occasions i.e: ‘THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH’. Fame sought her and refused to fade! Grace lifted her from shame and refused to be erased!! Stigma saw her, acquired unstuck, and took flight after her wedding in 2001!!!

Can a individual be enthroned but refuse to reign? All hail ‘Mummy Jessy’, the sceptre of thy kingdom is the sceptre of HUMILITY, and unto thee shall all thy s bow! I have lengthy back, in my literary race, learnt to line-up with the Father of creativeness- GOD ALMIGHTY, I line up with the creator of your resillient virtues!

What other people, in her place, would instead relish and rollick in, is what our sister found great displeasure in. The harder she sought anonymity, the greater she acquired celebrity standing and fame. Listen to out her ‘heart-kicks’: “one of my regrets would be that I will by no means again have the pleasure of sneeking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world, and no one understanding what I am doing, and no one bothering about me, and becoming completely anonymous, that fantastic”

You do not market 270 million copies of five publications, interpreted into 62 languages, including Chinese, and not anticipate your craving for anonymity to be torn to shreds!

Speaking of data by no means in publishing history has the first print operate of a guide amassed up to 10.8 million copies. By no means also, in publishing history has 9 million copies of a guide (I mean, her newest and 6th serial) been offered on the first day of its release!

The films from her first three publications havs grossed in over $two.six Billion Dollars. In reality this fantastic writer, getting no other data to break, behaved accurate to type – begun like the skillful ‘Potter’ that she is, to smash her own ‘pots’ to pieces, for better vessel than she had ever produced.

‘Pottermania’ has entered into the lexicon of the of the enjoyment industry. The multi-million Dollar licensing offers for Harry Potter products testified to this. Films, stamps, cauldren, eyeglasses, wands, caps, cotumes, musical albums… all give trademark endorsements of the fantastic imagery conjured from the thoughts of this humble genius known as J.K. Rowling.

To the skeptics who speculate the death of the Harry Potter brand name in the subsequent 3 to four many years, I have this to say: fifty percent a century to come this traditional would still occupy a prime location on bookshelves and bookstores. To picture the death of her works is akin to speculating the death of Creativity. God will spare her of their evil imagination.

Aderemi Ojikutu (Aderaskeey) is a Motivational Author and Youth Mentor. He is a minister of the Word of God. A political economist and political leader. He is President of the TREASURE WRITERS CLUB in Nigeria(http://www.newsletterjournal.com). He is also the current President of the National Democratic Forum (N.D.F). He was National Mobilisation Officer of the National Association of Nigerian Students (N.A.N.S) for a number of many years. A revolutionary of over two decades, he was also the political secretary of the defunct Nigerian Labour Celebration in 1991.










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