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01-16-2008, 06:24 PM
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Last week we told you about a set of Harry Potter books donated by J.K. Rowling to a charity fundraiser for an Edinburgh rugby club that had been burned down by vandals. The set of books brought in more than double the expected amount, selling for £6,960 (nearly $14,000 U.S.).
According to Portobello Rugby Club president Iain Goodall: Quote:
We lost everything in the fire. All the memorabilia since the club was formed in 1930 was lost. We only had two photographs remaining - one from 1931 and one from 1967. Every trophy, every plaque we had is gone.
I'm so delighted at this unexpected windfall that we've received, thanks to the generosity of JK Rowling. We'll use the money to enhance the club.
We're starting again, like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
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01-16-2008, 06:40 PM
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| | Romanian Longhorn
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Neverland
Posts: 39,693
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Margaret Jacqueline Atkinson Morris
Fifth Year | Potter’s Princess A+ FangGirl
That's awesome!  I'm glad Jo's helping out 
__________________ I gotta go back to the muggle world,
they're gonna try and tell me this wasn't, that none of this happened,
but you know what? It was real. It did happen.
We spent time here. We made friends here. That's a part of us.
Cause Hogwarts is bigger than any of us, of any of it's founders,
and it's going to be around long after we're gone.
Maybe we'll see our kids come here one day.
That's the thing about Hogwarts.
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01-16-2008, 06:49 PM
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| | Lobalug
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Stockholm, Sweden.
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Jo is a really wonderful and kind person! It's lovely they can start up their rugby club again!
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01-16-2008, 06:57 PM
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| | Re'em
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Cloud 9,000
Posts: 19,633
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Phineas Fischer
Fourth Year | *snortles* MAMA!Shroom
I kind of thought it would sell more than that. A signed set of books?! I expect that most people would be willing to pay top dollar for that.
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01-16-2008, 08:06 PM
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| | Plimpy
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: In the TARDIS
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That's fantastic!! | |
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01-16-2008, 08:42 PM
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| | Snidget
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: San Antonio, TX
Posts: 2,659
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Elizabeth Snape
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that's wanderful im glad she is helping out
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01-16-2008, 08:50 PM
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| | Veela
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In a fairytale
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Jillian McGuffin
Sixth Year | Gryffindor Goddess
that is a lot of money. good for the rugby team. it was really nice of Jo to do that. | |
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01-16-2008, 09:20 PM
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| | Ashwinder
Join Date: May 2004 Location: USA
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That's great | |
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01-16-2008, 10:24 PM
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| | Moke
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: NY
Posts: 8,991
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Rebecca AnnaMarie Latrowski
Fifth Year | I like to emphasize~Mecca~ScoobieDoo~M O L L Y~Dori~MummyAlice~Beckers the ALIEN
Wow I wish I could do that but Im sorta still saving .Congradulations!!!
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01-16-2008, 10:48 PM
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| | Gnome
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Awesome! | |
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01-17-2008, 01:50 AM
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| | Mackled Malaclaw
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Maryland
Posts: 11,247
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it's a wonder people can buy the thing who is that rich
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01-17-2008, 02:35 AM
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| | Moke
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Canada
Posts: 8,644
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Mathilda Bennett
First Year | Terrified of my Tag Rawr!!!
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We're starting again, like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
Teehee, that's kind of cute. 
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01-17-2008, 02:58 AM
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|  !!!!Awesome!!!!Jobberknoll
Join Date: May 2004 Location: in Howarts offcourse
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Mari Elizabeth Allen
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I really thought it would be more
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01-17-2008, 11:20 AM
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| | Pygmy Puff
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In a pineapple. <3
Posts: 18,309
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Emerson Gray.
Fourth Year | G1GGL3R! *giggles* My GarBear
Woah, that's great. Go Jo! | |
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01-17-2008, 12:13 PM
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| | Crup
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK
Posts: 17,077
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Marcella Riddle
Graduated | Kaplinski Rival Sorting Hat Machine
See, these are the kind of stories I point to when people bad-mouth Jo for being wealthy. She has a heart of gold.
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01-17-2008, 12:46 PM
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| | Puffskein
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Kent
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yep,totally agree w. emma riddle...jkr has a heart of gold,she gave her beedle the bard tales away too,millions thr,and a cool 7000 pounds 4 this club!
wonder why this club auction din fetch more.i thought these autog. books can fetch wayyyy higher than 7000 pounds!
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01-17-2008, 07:49 PM
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| | Bundimun
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: kentuky
Posts: 27
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Damien Valintine
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I agree with emma they should have got more money
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01-17-2008, 10:10 PM
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| | Dugbog
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: In LaLa land
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Jade Starwater
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. . . wow . . .
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01-21-2008, 12:15 AM
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| | Bundimun
Join Date: Jan 2008
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the hp franchise is a huge money maker. it isnt shocking that that was the price of a signed book. but still that is an amazing amount of money.
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01-21-2008, 08:31 PM
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| | Puffskein
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Edward's volvo <3
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Evelynn Mae White
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aww, that's so sweet of Jo ^^
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