It was when I was in Grade 1, junior middle school that I caught my first glimpse of “Harry Potter”, and then I fell in love with the series. In the past six years of my middle school, every time I finished one episode I commence to look forward to the launch of the next one. I have to admit that J.K. Rowling is not only an excellent writer but also an outstanding businesswoman. She chose not to publish her works immediately after she accomplished them so that readers and fans of “Harry Potter”, like me, could not help controlling the impulse to buy one copy of her newly published episode after waiting for a narrowly unbearable long time.
Actually, the first six episodes I read were all Chinese translations. I also tried to read the translation of the seventh one in the last year of my senior middle school, but unfortunately, I did not finish it due to the burden of study. And I did not get any opportunity to resume reading it since the book is not mine and I do not like to read books on a computer screen. Therefore, the day I got my term card of NUS and was notified that I could use this card to borrow books from the libraries, I went to the Central Library excitedly to book the book named “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows”. After almost forty days’ endeavor, now I have finished more than five hundred pages of this six-hundred-pages book. Its fascinating plot, figurative language and vivid characters are the main contributors of my obsession with this book.
The hero of “Harry Potter”, Harry James Potter, is a gallant and responsible teenager, who has been chosen as the only one that can beat and kill the most ever evil wizard-Voldemort. Throughout the seven episodes, he managed to perform better and better in the fights against Voldemort as he grew up and he had never given up in spite of the deaths of his closest friends, such as Sirius, Dumbledore and Fred. Finally, with the help and encouragement of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, and other people who support the justice and peace, he killed Voldemort successfully.
Last but not least, “Harry Potter” are really wonderful books. You cannot miss them!
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Harry Potter is one of my favorite novels. What I find most fascinating are the diverse personalities of the characters. Dumbledore could always find something to value in anyone, no matter how insignificant or wretched the person is. Harry, who remains pure of heart in spite of all the temptation he has endured and the loss of loved ones he has suffered from, tells just how incomparable it is the power of a soul that is untarnished and whole.
ReplyDeleteNow that you have read the first series in Chinese, read them in English, at least one book. Then compare the two -is the translation accurate? Is accuracy the most important, or as long as the main point of the story is there, it does not matter?
ReplyDeleteReflect...when you write in English, do you think in Chinese, then translate? What you have written, is ti actually what you want to say?