J.K. Rowling to Release Another Harry Potter Book for Charity

J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, isn’t done raising money for charity. Late last year she auctioned off a book she had written and illustrated, and it was purchased by Amazon.com for nearly $4 million. Still, she wanted to do more, and this December, she will.

The book that was auctioned off was The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a book to which J.K. refers in the final book of the Harry Potter series. There were originally seven, and aside from the one that was auctioned, she gave six as gifts. With the blessing of those who received that book as a gift, as well as Amazon.com and the support of Bloomsbury, Scholastic, and Amazon, that book will be made available to the public December 4.

J.K. doesn’t plan to make any money off the release of this book — she has signed over her royalties to the charity she and Emma Nicholson co-founded called the Children’s High Level Group. The charity works “at a political and practical level to ensure that UN minimum standards for the care of children are implemented across the whole of Europe and beyond.”

The Tales of Beedle the Bard will have more than just a few storied J.K. jotted down. The author said, “The new edition will include the Tales themselves, translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, and with illustrations by me, but also notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore, which appear by generous permission of the Hogwarts Headmasters’ Archive.”

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