Free to fail and imagine

If you have any doubt about why Jo Rowling's Harry Potter is a worldwide phenomenon, just watch her 2008 Harvard commencement address. Drawing from her failures, her friendships, and her observations of human empathy and cruelty, Rowling created a fictional world that sends shock waves through the non-fictional one. Behind the magic, there's power.

J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.