The whole novel has a total of 220,000 words. The more Shirley read, the more fascinated she became.
"Miss Hermione is really cute, good at studying, and smart. Although she is a Muggle, she knows so much magical knowledge. It's really amazing!"
"Oh my God, Snape is not a bad guy. It's so unexpected!"
"Professor Quirrell didn't stutter, he became Voldemort's servant!"
"Poof, haha, the Philosopher's Stone fell into Harry's hands!"
"Gryffin won, and Harry announced the assessment, eh? Is he going to return to Muggle society?"
When I read Chapter 17 of "Two-Face", the story finally came to an end. Just as Shirley's expectations began to rise, the story came to an abrupt end again.
As a reader, Shirley very much likes to see what interesting things will happen to Harry in Muggle society, because at the end of the story of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", Harry did not know about Hogwarts College.
A ban on magic for all students during the summer break!
So you can imagine what an interesting story will happen when Harry returns to Muggle society and faces his aunt and uncle who once bullied and beat him, as well as his annoying arrogant cousin!
"This is not a complete story, there should be a second part!" Shirley thought.
At the same time, Shirley also discovered that although "Harry Potter" is children's literature, it has richer fantasy colors. However, what makes Shirley feel a little bad is that this work describes everything from beginning to end.
London society, and the spelling of many English words is simply terrible, which greatly affects Shirley's reading experience. How good would it be if it were set in America?
At this time, it was already dark, and most of the company employees had left. Shirley's original idea of getting comfortable with Editor George again was temporarily shelved.
The next day, Shirley opened George's office with a pair of panda eyes and excitement on her face.
"Hi, good morning, Shirley."
George was drinking coffee again. He sat on the office chair, looked at Shirley who knocked on the door and came in, and said with a smile: "What can I do?"
Shirley pointed to George's computer and said, "I forwarded an email to you."
"Is there a new manuscript?" George heard this and quickly opened his computer mailbox.
In his opinion, Shirley must have found a manuscript that could sell well when she came to him in such a hurry early in the morning. Otherwise, Shirley's rare behavior would be too weird!
"It's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"!" Shirley explained: "But this time it's the complete book, with a total of 200,000 words!"
George paused, then opened the mailbox and said, "Oh, I know, I'll take a look first, go and do your work!"
Shirley saw George's calm expression, which was completely different from her excited expression. She returned to her desk uneasily, having no enthusiasm for work all morning.
Wouldn't it be passed again?
Finally, during the lunch break, George came to Shirley's desk and said, "Shirley, overall, this is indeed a good story, but it is not amazing, and I made a strange discovery.
In addition to the content of the manuscript, the address of this email seems to be from China?"
"Ah, I'm not very clear about this, but judging from the writing style, the author should be British." Shirley said.
"There is something you may not be aware of recently."
George decided to have a good talk with Shirley: "There is a science fiction writer in China called Qinglian Sword Fairy, who declined the invitation from the White House two days ago."
"I know this person. He is the Chinese writer who wrote "The Three-Body Problem."" Shirley nodded.
George smiled: "Rejecting the invitation from the White House is one, and the other is that China and the United States are now somewhat diplomatically sensitive, so..."
Shirley understood what George meant. Political issues have always been something that any company needs to avoid.
"He may not be the Qinglian Sword Immortal." Shirley argued.
"I know." George shrugged and said with a smile: "I'm also sure this is not the Qinglian Sword Fairy, but what if he is a Chinese writer? You know, in recent times, Chinese hackers have planted Chinese flags all over the place.
I have read all American websites, and now many citizens are very disgusted with China.”
"This is unlikely. I feel this must be an Englishman."
Shirley said: "Furthermore, the authorities have blocked Qinglian Sword Fairy, but they have not blocked all Chinese writers. We cannot generalize."
"Although it did not stop all Chinese writers, it did mention the term cultural invasion. You should understand this aspect carefully."
George patted the computer on Shirley's desk: "Okay Shirley, let's put down the work first. It's time to have lunch."
Shirley was not in the mood to have lunch at this time. After George left, she made a cup of coffee alone, leaned in front of the computer and started to reply to the author of "Harry Potter".
And on the other side of the ocean, mainland China.
In Beijing, after Li Qing sent "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" to more than a dozen publishers in the United States, he entered the waiting period.
In the next two days, the effect of Li Qing's speech at Beijing University was fully realized. The impact of the embassy bombing incident gradually faded away. While people remembered the two Xinhua News Agency reporters who died, they also recalled what Li Qing said in his speech.
Just like that, work hard and contribute to the construction of the country.
The influence of the Sino-US hacker war has gradually begun to ferment on the Internet. Many media reporters have begun to record the results of this Chinese hacker alliance. When they learned that the Chinese flag was planted all over the US government website, and played on many music players
During the national anthem, many netizens suddenly felt a sense of pride in their hearts, and for the first time they had a more intuitive impression and understanding of the word hacker.
More and more people are beginning to join in online research.
They not only study the Chinese Internet, but also carefully understand the Internet in other countries through various channels.
China's Internet started too late. If you want to make progress, it is obviously much more convenient to learn from the experience of previous generations.
It was also at this time that e-commerce platforms similar to Amazon began to enter the eyes of the Chinese people.
Some people have a flash of inspiration in their minds, fail to seize the opportunity, and eventually disappear from the crowd.
But some people keep this flash of inspiration firmly in their hearts and take action.
When Li Qing received Shirley's second email reply, he finally came to his senses.
Although "Harry Potter" was popular all over the world in its previous life and ranked among the best-selling novel series in the world, and the movie series is also the best-selling movie in the world, it is ultimately a British work and describes what happened in London, England.
, the place where it first became popular was also in the UK, and later it became based in the UK and became popular all over the world.
Americans don't necessarily like stories like this.
The most important thing is that China and the United States are in a sensitive period, and American publishers may not publish Chinese works.
Li Qing frowned at the thought. He did not expect that publishing a "Harry Potter" would be so troublesome. This was somewhat different from the plan he had imagined.
At that time, Wang Jiachen, the director of the "Love Talk" crew, once again sent a text message asking if Li Qing had time to join the crew.
Therefore, Li Qing, who was thinking about it, put aside the idea of publishing "Harry Potter" and flew to Hong Kong with his team to prepare for his first acting role in his life.