JK Rowling warned that the chair was hard on her back. Image: Reuters
Any Harry Potter fans out there? If you call yourself a “super fan” of the Wizarding World then you might dream of owning some original HP memorabilia. According to Artnet News, a fan in New York just bought this chair at an auction – the chair where J.K. Rowling sat to write the Harry Potter books.
The chair on which British author J.K. Rowling sat to write the first two volumes of her best-selling “Harry Potter” series. Photo: William Edwards/AFP.
It sold on April 6, 2016 for $394,000. Nearly $400,000 for a chair that was given to Rowling for free!
The chair where JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter, signed and painted by the author. Photo: Heritage Auctions.
Rowling explained in a letter written for the auction, “The 1930s-era oak chair was the most comfortable of a mismatched set of four she was given back in 1995, when she was a struggling single mother living in subsidized housing.”
JK Rowling’s hand-painted message on the chair. Photo: Joseph Schroeder, Heritage Auctions.
Specifically for the auction, Rowling painted the phrases on the sides of the chair. She never would have thought that it would be worth so much one day. Evidently, she told the auction house, “My nostalgic side is quite sad to see it go, but my back isn’t,” wrote Rowling. This just goes to prove that the most simple things around a house can become a work of art in the eye of another!
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