I will admit here and now, before the world, that I’m not a Harry Potter fan. I don’t dislike the books; I just don’t love that genre of fiction. But I admire writers like J.K. Rowling, especially writers who are at the end of their ropes and then have a vision and get that vision onto the page and become a raging success. I wish I’d have a vision like that.

So, here is a speech Cheryl Klein, continuity editor of the U.S. Harry Potter books, gave. See what you think.