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Big News! JKR Writes New Harry Potter Prequel for Charity Auction
BooksHang on everyone, as there is some rather big news tonight regarding that notecard that J.K. Rowling has written for a charity auction in June. MSNBC is reporting tonight that the note card is actually “an 800-word Harry Potter prequel.” The only other information on this new material regarding the beloved Harry Potter series is that “Rowling used both sides of her card to hand-write a prequel to her seven-book Harry Potter saga.”
The report goes on to say “Organizers refused to comment on the content of Rowling’s Harry Potter prequel, but Hogwarts fans hoping for another book to add to their collection may be disappointed by her signoff.
“From the prequel I am not working on — but that was fun!’’ Rowling wrote.
Rowling has previously said she had no plans to write another Potter novel, but in December she sold a handwritten, leather-bound book of fairy tales she described as drawing on the series’ themes, for nearly $4 million at auction. The money went to The Children’s Voice, a charity Rowling co-founded in 2005.”
As a reminder, this card is part of a charity auction to be held at Waterstone’s Book seller in London, England June 10, proceeds to benefit English PEN and Dyslexia Action. As we reported previously, the card, along with ones from the 12 other authors who contributed to the charity auction, will be published in a book due on sale in August, with the cards also to be posted online JUNE 11, including this new Harry Potter prequel from J.K. Rowling. The Telegraph cites Gerry Johnson, the managing director of Waterstone’s as saying: “We never dreamed that JK Rowling would donate something so precious, and we’re incredibly grateful.” Fans unable to meet the bidding price for the prequel need not fret, however. The day after the auction, a facsimile of the story will be displayed in Waterstone’s branches and on its website. “
Update: Be sure to post your thoughts in this new poll here in our forum regarding what you hope for in this new prequel.
Note: Due to some unfortunate technical glitches, part of this article and none of the comments were showing when this was first posted. While this editor suspects Nargles, we do apologize for the inconvenience.
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Hahaha Cute, tongue-in-cheek idea. I’d like to see it. :)
Outstanding, I can’t wait. I wonder if you can buy it on line
I wish she released more of this to the public. It sounds really cool! JKR is always surprising us with something interesting! First?
I wish she released more of this to the public. It sounds really cool! JKR is always surprising us with something interesting! First?
I wish she released more of this to the public. It sounds really cool! JKR is always surprising us with something interesting! To bad there isn’t a long written prequel. The charity sounds like a worthy cause.
Wow!! Let’s hope that whoever is lucky enough to buy that shares what’s written with us! At least a summery like Amazon….
I just hope that the lucky winner of the auction is nice enough to share it with us like Amazon did with Beedle the Bard. Oh, to be really rich… =)
I’d give anything for that card, too bad she wont write another book hopefully the prequel will be in the scottish book!!!
Ooooh what type of prequel d’you think? The Marauders? The Dumbledores?
From the article:
“Copies of the cards will be collated into a book to be made available at the bookstore and online in August.”
So we’ll eventually get to read it if we buy the book. Woot!
I hope that this prequal is a rumor and not based on any truth. If it is to sell it to the highest bidder for charity is robbing all of her fans at yet another opportunity to enjoy her work. She could have made alot more money for charity if it was available to all of her customers to purchase. That is somewhat how I felt when she sold Beetle in the Bard. I wanted a copy for myself because her work was good. To make her work exclusive to only those that can afford it even if it is for charity purposes is robbing her fans who has help and supported her for all these years. It saddens not excites me.
For some reason the last paragraph of this article didn’t show until I posted my comment. Glad to read that it going to be part of a volume charity event rather than a single copy going to the highest bidder. More like the Harry School Book duo…
That would be an interesting read, wonder if it will ever become public. Ah well, I’ll make due with re-re-re-(etc :p )-reading the books we do have trying to find things I may have missed before.
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