A copy is left to Hermione Granger by Albus Dumbledore, and contains clues used by the friends in their quest to destroy Voldemort. The Tales of Beedle the Bard play a crucial role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final novel in Rowling’s fantasy series.
A note from Rowling in the front of the edition reads: “To Barry, the man who thought an overlong novel about a boy wizard in glasses might just sell … THANK YOU.” Inside was a cloth-wrapped, leather-bound manuscript covered in semi-precious stones and featuring a silver mounted skull. Cunningham was sent the manuscript of The Tales of Beedle the Bard on 12 December 2007 in a white Jiffy envelope. The manuscript, which Sotheby’s will auction in London on 13 December with a guide price of between £300,000 and £500,000, was made for publisher Barry Cunningham, who signed up Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone for Bloomsbury. a Sotheby’s employee holds the ‘exceptional and desirable object’ Photograph: Ben A.
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