【正文】 I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never of the greatest formative experiences of my life preceded Harry Potter, though it informed much of what I subsequently wrote in those revelation came in the form of one of my earliest day I was sloping off to write stories during my lunch hours, I paid the rent in my early 20s by working at the African research department at Amnesty International?s headquarters in in my little office I read hastily scribbled letters smuggled out of totalitarian regimes by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world of what was happening to saw photographs of those who had disappeared without trace, sent to Amnesty by their desperate families and read the testimony of torture victims and saw pictures of their opened handwritten, eyewitness accounts of summary trials and executions, of kidnappings and of my coworkers were expolitical prisoners, people who had been displaced from their homes, or fled into exile, because they had the temerity to speak against their to our offices included those who had e to give information, or to try and find out what had happened to those they had left shall never forget the African torture victim, a young man no older than I was at the time, who had bee mentally ill after all he had endured in his trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera about the brutality inflicted upon was a foot taller than I was, and seemed as fragile as a was given the job of escorting him back to the Underground Station afterwards, and this man whose life had been shattered by cruelty took my hand with exquisite courtesy, and wished me future as long as I live I shall remember walking along an empty corridor and suddenly hearing, from behind a closed door, a scream of pain and horror such as I have never heard door opened, and the researcher poked out her head and told me to run and make a hot drink for the young man sitting with had just had to give him the news that in retaliation for his own outspokenness against his country?s regime, his mother had been seized and day of my working week in my early 20s I was reminded how incredibly fortunate I was, to live in a country with a democratically elected government, where legal representation and a public trial were the rights of day, I saw more evidence about the evils humankind will inflict on their fellow humans, to gain or maintain began to have nightmares, literal nightmares, about some of the things I saw, heard, and yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known mobilises thousands of people who have never been tortured or imprisoned for their beliefs to act on behalf of those who power of human empathy, leading to collective action, saves lives, and frees people, whose personal wellbeing and security are assured, join together in huge numbers to save people they do not know, and will never small participation in that process was one of the most humbling and inspiring experiences of my any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having can think themselves into other people?s course, this is a power, like my brand of fictional magic, that is morally might use such an ability to manipulate, or control, just as much as to understand or symp many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at choose to remain fortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they can refuse to hear screams or to peer inside cages。I wanted to study English promise was reached that in retrospect satisfied nobody, and I went up to study Modern had my parents? car rounded the corner at the end of the road than I ditched German and scuttled off down the Classics cannot remember telling my parents that I was studying Classics。羅琳現(xiàn)在很有錢，是英國僅次于女皇的最富有的女人，但是她曾經(jīng)有一段非常艱辛的日子，30歲了，還差點流落街頭。我讀了一遍講稿，覺得很好，很感染人。她的演講題目是《失敗的好處和想象的重要性》（The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination）。Kor so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own mencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can?t remember a single word she liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law or politics for the giddy delights of being a gay see? If all you remember in years to e is the ?gay wizard? joke, I?ve e out ahead of Baroness Mary goals: the first step to self , I have wracked my mind and heart for what I ought to say to you have asked myself what I wish I had known at my own graduation, and what important lessons I have learned in the 21 years that have expired between that day and have e up with two this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called ?real life?, I want to extol the crucial importance of im may seem quixotic or paradoxical choices, but please bear with back at the 21yearold that I was at graduation, is a slightly unfortable experience for the 42yearold that she has my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write , my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that m