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investment book rowling harry potter madness Manuscript

JK Rowling's book auctioned by almost 4 million

The author of Harry Potter's handwritten and illustrated seven fairy tales, one of which was sold for charity

The buyer, London art agent Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, now has one of only seven copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard (The Tales of Beedle the Bard), bound in leather with silver mounts.

The auction house Sotheby 's anticipated that the book would sell for about $ 100 000. Attendees cheered the auction when bids exceeded the mark of a million pounds (2 million).

The money will be donated to The Children "s Voice, a charity founded in 2005 by Rowling and Baroness Nicholson, a member of the House of Lords in Britain.

Rowling, 42, followed the auction via the Internet from his home in Edinburgh and said he was ecstatic.

"" It will mean so much to children who desperately need help, '"the writer said in a statement. "Christmas has come early to me". "

Rowling, whose Harry Potter books have sold nearly 400 million copies and been translated into 64 languages, wrote the book of tales after finishing the seventh and final installment in the series about the boy wizard's apprentice.

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard is really a distillation of the issues addressed in the Harry Potter books, and writing has been the most wonderful way to say goodbye to a world I loved and where I lived for 17 years" " said Rowling.

He said he gave the other seven copies of "Beedle" "people who were closely connected with the collection of Harry Potter.

The Children "s Voice campaigns for child rights across Europe, especially in the east of the continent, where many children and teenagers grow up in institutions, often in conditions that many activists say as unacceptable.

Rowling said the proceeds from the auction "will" help institutionalized children who desperately need a voice. "


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