Several weeks ago we reported that an unpublished hand-written and illustrated tale of wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling would be auctioned off to benefit one of her favorite charity providers. This particular story was one of seven in the series titled “The Tales of Beedle Bard,” which was a tale told to Harry and friends from Hogwarts Academy Head Master Dumbledore. Rowling has indicated that none of the seven tales will ever be published.
The auction was recently held at the famous Sotheby’s in London where the manuscript fetched the healthy sum of $3.98 million (1.95 million pounds), a staggering amount of money when you consider it garnered 40 times its expected price.
Sotheby’s revealed the buyer to be from London dealer Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox.
Um.. I’m pretty sure that these were tales told by Headmaster *Dumbledore*, not *Dumblebee*. 🙂
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it was a hoggwarts transformer.
hehehe!!!!
darcy
Did I do that? 🙂
He transforms into a broomstick? “Dumbledore Prime, transform! Wizards, lets roll!”
And if we want to get really nit-picky, Dumbledore was out of the picture when Harry and Co. got their copy of the Tales.
FYI, I read that the buyer was Amazon.com, through Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox.
Yep. Read SoSF News Briefs HERE: http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2007/12/14/slice-of-scifi-news-briefs-32/
omg harry potter is so cool i love him so much xxx