Harry Potter prequel sells for $ 50,000

JK Rowling’s prequel to Harry Potter sold at auction for $50,000 tonight amid frenzied bidding by fans of the boy wizard. The story, which had been shrouded in secrecy, was penned last month and is just 800 words long. Her Potter prequel comes almost a year after the last book in the series, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, hit the shelves.

Organisers of the charity auction asked 13 authors, including JK Rowling, Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Faulks, Nick Hornby and Doris Lessing, to create a story for the sale. The celebrated writers were told they could submit anything from a doodle and collage to a fresh story.

But JK Rowling, who has earned a £560 million fortune from the seven Potter stories which sold more than 375 million books worldwide, is determined the latest instalment will not be developed further. She says at the end of the story, written on both sides of an A5 storycard: "From the prequel I am not working on - but that was fun!"  Source

The 800 word storycard was hand-written and signed by JK Rowling for a unique and rare memento of the Harry Potter Series

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