"Mr. Jia, I'm glad we meet again. My gratitude to you is indescribable!" JK Rowling was almost moved to tears when she saw Boss Jia again.
However, this was not surprising because after Harry Potter reached the top of the bestseller list in the UK, 50,000 copies of Harry Potter had been sold in the past three months.
This was not a small number. In the UK of this era, it was an unprecedented miracle in the past 20 years for a children's book to be able to sell this many copies.
The sales of 50,000 copies also brought JK Rowling 200,000 pounds in royalties. Coupled with the signing bonus given by Boss Jia, JK Rowling not only got rid of her previous poor life, but also bought a house in London and a villa in the suburbs of her hometown. She also sent her children to top private schools, which changed JK Rowling's life completely.
Now, "Harry Potter" was going to be released in the United States. If "Harry Potter" could achieve half the miracle in the United States as it did in the UK, no, even if it was only 14%, it could achieve 10 times the sales in the UK. JK Rowling would really make a lot of money.
Moreover, Boss Jia also gave JK Rowling the right to receive continuous income. JK Rowling would receive 50% of the royalties from the "Harry Potter" series in the future.
She would also receive a 3% share of the profits from movies or animations.
[Previously, I wrote that JK Rowling would only receive 20% of the royalties. If that was the case, I felt that JK Rowling would definitely cause trouble in the future. Therefore, I changed it to the previous version. However, the signing fee for each novel was reduced from one million USD to one hundred thousand USD.]
Now, how could JK Rowling not be grateful to Boss Jia … After all, Boss Jia had already bought all the copyrights of the "Harry Potter" series for the next 50 years, as well as the derivative works of the "Harry Potter" worldview, etc. All the cultural copyrights. If JK Rowling dared to show even the slightest bit of disrespect to Boss Jia, Boss Jia would directly kick JK Rowling aside and find a Chinese web novel author to write a "Harry Potter: The Ten Trilogy"
Believe it or not, a web novel author's works were usually not much worse than JK Rowling's.
"You flatter me!" Boss Jia said with a smile. After chatting with JK Rowling for a while, Boss Jia cut to the chase. "I've read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone several times. I've also read the draft of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets a few times. I'm considered your loyal fan! So, I have some questions about the plot and I hope you can answer them! "
"Mr. Jia, you must be joking!" JK Rowling smiled like a flower. "Actually, I'm just writing whatever I want to write. I haven't thought of how to deal with a lot of foreshadowing for the time being. There are some questions that I might not be able to answer. But I promise that as long as I've thought of it, I'll definitely answer it. It doesn't matter even if it's a spoiler! "
"Hahaha, it has nothing to do with spoilers. I think it's better for me to wait until the plot is written before reading it. I'm just slightly curious about the world of this novel. Whether it's the Philosopher's Stone or the Chamber of Secrets, the novel only describes the magic world in the United Kingdom. Then, are there no magic and wizards in other countries?" Boss Jia asked curiously.
"Of course there are. Otherwise, this world would be unreasonable!" When JK Rowling heard Boss Jia actually discussing the specific content of the world of the novel with her, she suddenly became extremely happy.
In fact, although the two of them were chatting happily before, it was basically just some conventional and nonsense. However, when Boss Jia and JK Rowling talked about the world of the novel, JK Rowling confirmed that Boss Jia had actually read her novel. Moreover, he had read it very carefully and seriously. Otherwise, he wouldn't have given birth to such a question that a non-die-hard fan wouldn't be able to have.
After discovering that her boss really valued and loved her novel, JK Rowling immediately exploded with 120,000 points of enthusiasm. She explained to Boss Jia, "In my imagination, the magic society exists all over the world. Unlike all the countries in the real world that are filled with war, the society of wizards is more united but there are no wars. Moreover, there is an organization with certain rights to unify and restrain the wizards all over the world."
"Of course, each country will have its own magic administrative unit. The wizards in the United Kingdom are directly under the control of the Ministry of Magic. As for the United States, they are under the control of the Congress of Magic. In fact, the whole of Europe is basically under the control of the Ministry of Magic. It's just that each country has its own branch. Some countries with historical origins can have a Ministry of Magic controlling multiple countries. As for other countries, they have their own systems. In the end, all the magic administrative institutions will be unified under the control of the world's Congress of Magic!" JK Rowling briefly described her idea of the administrative power of the entire magic world.
Of course, because JK Rowling had only written two Harry Potter novels at this time, many of the settings were not perfect. The specific content sounded a little different from the magic world that would eventually take shape in the future.
"Moreover, in my imagination, there is not only one magic school in the world. In Europe, such as France, Germany, and Russia, they should all have their own magic schools. I'll secretly give you a spoiler. In one of the future Harry Potter books, it describes the plot of an intense competition between the academies of several countries! " As JK Rowling spoke, her eyes lit up. She was already immersed in the world of her own design.
"Mm, what a great idea!" Boss Jia praised, making JK Rowling smile like a flower. Then, Boss Jia continued, "Then I want to know, how do you design the magic society in Hua Xia? You know, I'm a Hua Xia person, so I'm especially curious about these things! "
"This …" JK Rowling, who was talking non-stop just now, was suddenly at a loss for words.
JK Rowling studied French and classical literature in university, so the magic world she wrote was very magical. However, if you asked her to understand the classical society and cultivation system of Hua Xia, it would be a little too much.
"I think the wizards of Hua Xia may have formed a party with a high degree of organization and control, and then managed all the wizards of Hua Xia!" JK Rowling began to compose on the spot, but Boss Jia only frowned when he heard it.
Wasn't this just adding some western traditional impressions of the Chinese into the magic world? This was simply a pile of dog sh * t!
"Very good, but there are some differences from the magic society in Hua Xia that I envisioned!" Boss Jia smiled and interrupted JK Rowling's words. Then, JK Rowling said with relief, "So Mr Jia already has an idea, then how did you design it?"
"Actually, this is also one of my goals today. I spent a few months and energy to design a somewhat simple magic society system in Hua Xia, as well as some unique things in Hua Xia. I hope you can take a look and see if you can add it into the main text of Hua Xia to reflect it!" Boss Jia said sincerely.
"You wrote so much!" JK Rowling saw Boss Jia holding a thick document in his hand, which looked like it was at least 20 to 30 pages long, and was really touched.
Boss Jia really loved his novel, otherwise, he wouldn't have written such a detailed setting himself.
Mm, JK Rowling would never know that the fake boss only spent three nights to complete these things. After all, he had read countless cultivation novels in his previous life, and all the settings were simply copied directly.
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