You are so lucky!! Thank you for sharing the experience with us!!!
I yearn for that book!!! Jo simply MUST make a widely-available copy, or I will have to resort to grand theft!
Does anyone know who the other six people are who will receive copies of these books?
so does leaky have 4 copies of the actual book or just the catalogue.
just the catalogue its amazing melissa got see it! i really hope it raises loads
We don’t know who the other 6 went to, but as they went to “those most closely connected to the Harry Potter books during the past 17 years” we can make some intelligent guesses. I expect Christopher Little and the two current editors (maybe also the original British editor) will get copies.
OMG!!! You are like soooo lucky!! OMG !! I’m like spazing out!!! * DROOL!!! * LOL!! BRB…
I’ve received mine; it is rather special. I expected something like a glossy magazine, what I got was a 7×5 stiff-card-backed book with Jo’s ink drawings on the front and back cover. Inside were 27 pages of cunningly angled photos of the book interior featuring illustrations or text and four pages showing the silver work process. The rest of the pages contained information about the charity, an article by an ex orphanage young person, a Foreword by Jo and a nice photo of her holding one of the copies of the book, and all the necessary information with regard to the auction and methods of payment. A very nice memento of a unique event.
Melissa, thank you for becoming a Harry Potter fan—the fandom is much richer thanks to your contributions! I envy you for the special moments you’ve earned (i.e. meetings with Jo) and am so thankful you are a skilled journalist so that you can share it all with the rest of us.
Glad you didn’t drool on it. With my luck, I would’ve sneezed and caused the ink to run (ack!!).
that’s great, I’ve ordered the catalogue. Something to look forward to, in the absence of enough money to bid on the original! I expect that once the book has sold a copy will be published eventually, maybe for charity like the comic relief ones.
It is by no means certain that the stories will be published, but I do think they would fit into the much rumoured encyclopedia, though even if it was published separately, I do think selling a lot of cheap copies would raise more money for charity than one expensive one.
As much as i want to read teh stories im kindof glad she’s not publishing the book for the public… I think those people who got the one-of-a-kind copies deserve to have that experiance.
sorry i posted twice… my comoputer also posted before i was done so ya… I just wanted to say thanks for sharing your amazingly unique experiences with us fellow HP fans… its a lot of fun to read these posts that give us an inside look on what its like to actually get to… you know… do amazing Harry Potter stuff.
-HPfreak
Wow, I would love to go see this on display…