Date: 7th January 2001

Harry Potter To Help Out Comic Relief


Britain's Comic Relief charity is poised to make $33 million (£22 million) from two Harry Potter spin off books.

Author JK ROWLING has written the stories especially for the fund-raising organisation, which will receive $3 (£2) of the $3.75 (£2.50) cover price. QUIDDITCH THROUGH THE AGES and FANTASTIC BEAST & WHERE TO FIND THEM are expected to sell eleven million copies, as fans rush to find out more about the world of the schoolboy wizard.

Rowling has urged everyone to buy her new offerings, saying, "You buy them because they will save lives." (KAB/WNSMI/KW)

Source: WENN