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When you hear “JK Rowling” what are your first thoughts? Wizards? Magic? A dark haired scrawny boy with crooked glasses and a lightning bolt scar? He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named? JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series has sold thousands of copies in over 200 countries and in 60 different languages. She’s broken multiple records for the fastest selling book. She’s ranked as the wealthiest woman in the United Kingdom and the second most influential women in history. Yet, the truth is, JK Rowling was not always sitting on top of the world; in fact, she once described herself as the biggest failure she knew. At one point, Rowling was unemployed, depressed, suicidal, and single mother who never thought she would make it anywhere. When she went to get her first …show more content…

Although they might represent a moment of alienation, both from ourselves and from a previously convincing vision of the world. But what’s wrong with that? To alienate means to make unfamiliar; and to see things, including ourselves, as unfamiliar is an opportunity to see them anew. One person who was able to do this was C.P Ellis, a former klansman of the Ku Klux Klan. According to Kathryn Schulz in her book Adventures of the Margin of Error, during the televised broadcast of the 1988 Democratic Convention, Ellis (who at time had been out of the Klan for eighteen years) told Studs Terkel, “They say the older you get, the harder it is for you to change, but that’s not necessarily true. Since I changed, I’ve set down and listened to tapes of Martin Luther King. I listen to it and tears come to my eyes, because I know what he’s saying now. I know what’s happening.” Ellis’s transformation depicts that it takes courage to leave our past selves behind, but it takes even more to carry them with us, accept that we have erred, and recognize that we have changed with compassion. In essence, wrongness is always an opportunity for such

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