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The Tales of Beedle the Bard; For Harry Potter loons...
Topic Started: Dec 4 2008, 11:23 PM (163 Views)
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5282872.ece

A year and a half on from his seventh and final adventure, Harry Potter mania has erupted again. J. K. Rowling’s latest book The Tales of Beedle the Bard went on sale early this morning, forcing thousands of parents out of bed and into frostbitten queues outside bookshops long before dawn.

Booksellers said that the collection of fairytales, which do not feature the boy wizard, was bound to be the Christmas number one, the first time that a work of fiction has claimed that position in recent memory.

More than seven million copies of the book have been printed in 28 languages. Last night it was ranked first on Amazon’s British and US websites. The online retailer is printing 100,000 copies of a leather-bound collectors’ edition priced at £50. While her previous books have made her an estimated fortune of more than £500 million, Rowling has donated all the profits from The Tales to the Children’s High Level Group, the charity she set up with Emma Nicholson, the MEP.

The Tales are a central part of the final Harry Potter book. Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, bequeathed a volume containing five wizard fairytales to Harry’s friend, Hermione Granger. It offered clues to help Harry to defeat his great enemy, Lord Voldemort.

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There are pictures of the VERY VERY limited edition she handmade herself here, there are only 7 copies in the world... I WANT IT!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_73887665_3?ie=UTF8&docId=1000137983&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1TSCGV6PC2AEKSECTE4Q&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=208785691&pf_rd_i=1000138383#images1
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I want this.

It was a shit idea though to not allow the stores to advertise for it. A Danish newspaper reported earlier today that almost no one know of its release because of these restrictions.
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