Last year, during the month of June, a very good friend of mine sent me the text of a commencement speech J. K. Rowling gave at Harvard University in June, 2008. I was in Provincetown at the time, working as hard as I possibly could to earn money for AUBG tuition, so I just glanced through the email and starred it for future reference after I realized it’s rather long. Unfortunately, I did not read that speech until now. In fact, the only reason I am going through this whole humiliation of telling this story, that illustrates just how awful a friend I am, is to share with you the contents of that speech. It certainly made me start thinking about things (and made me check out if Amnesty is offering any internships). [...]