AN ARTIFACT PULLED STRAIGHT OUT OF A NOVEL

The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
The Fountain of Fair Fortune
The Warlock’s Hairy Heart
Babbitty Rabbitty and her Crackling Stump
The Tale of Three Brothers

These are the five stories that make up one of the most expensive book of this century, which was handwritten and illustrated by the popular author of Harry Potter series Joanne Kathleen Rowling, the Tales of Beedle the Bard.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard was mentioned in the final installment of Harry Potter series, in the Deathly Hallows. It was a small book Dumbledore left to Hermione. Readers knew well the rest of the story.

It was published on December 13, 2007 with only seven limited copies! One copies of the book, the moonstone edition, was offered for auction.

Who bought it?

Actually, the book was expected to be sold at £50,000 (US$103,000) but it was bought by Amazon.com for £1.95 MILLION (US$3.98 MILLION)! Wow! Very expensive! It was “the highest achieved at auction for a modern literary manuscript.”

Where did the money proceed? Well, it was donated to The Children’s Voice charity campaign.

It was described as “one of the most exciting piece of children’s literature.”