Jk's New Book

http://omg.yahoo.com/rowling-completes-pos...-book/news/3619

So, JKR is to publish The Adventures of Beedle the Bard, with only one copy going on sale, with an auction opening price of $62,000. Reckon if we all chip in a bit...

I'll go check between the sofa cushions now!

I can't even imagine how much money this will go for! If only we all really could manage to pool our money together, but I have a feeling some millionaire will buy it for their HP-loving child.

It sold today for £1.95million, or just under $4million. Impressive.




LONDON (Reuters) - A hand-written, illustrated book of wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record 1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at auction in London on Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.



"The Tales of Beedle the Bard" had been expected to go for up to 50,000 pounds at the Sotheby's sale.

The buyer was from London dealer Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, the auctioneer said.

"There was applause when it reached one million and more when it finished," a Sotheby's spokesman said. "Bidding lasted about 10 minutes with four or five bidders in the room and the same number on the phones."

The price is the highest ever achieved at auction for a modern literary manuscript, an auction record for a work by JK Rowling, and an auction record for a children's book.

All proceeds from the sale will go to The Children's Voice, a charity Rowling co-founded in 2005 to help vulnerable children across Europe.

"The Tales of Beedle the Bard" are mentioned in the last Potter book as having been left to Harry's friend Hermione by their teacher Albus Dumbledore.

Of the five stories in the book only one, "The Tale of the Three Brothers," is told in the Potter novels, appearing in the final Potter book "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

"'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' is really a distillation of the themes found in the Harry Potter books, and writing it has been the most wonderful way to say goodbye to a world I loved and lived in for 17 years," Rowling wrote in the sale catalogue.

There are just seven copies of the Tales, bound in brown leather and decorated in silver and moonstones. Six have been given to people closely connected to the Harry Potter books.

The seventh was auctioned on Thursday.

It looks like it was bought by Amazon,com. They've posted some pics and an interesting description.

Thank you for the link Mrs Figg! Now I'd just like to read the two other stories in the book.

So here is another link courtesy of Mugglenet, which gives access to The Warlock's Hairy heart