Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ Armchair Sells for Adorable $394,000

A board armchair acclimated by J.K. Rowling if she wrote her aboriginal two “Harry Potter” books has
awash for $394,000 at a New York bargain – added than eight times its aperture bid.

The chair, on which the British biographer corrective the words “I wrote Harry Potter while sitting on this chair,” came from a dining set that Rowling was accustomed if she was a disturbing individual mother active in Scotland.

It was put on the block by agent Gerald Gray, who bought the armchair in 2009, and auctioned in New York by Heritage Auctions on Wednesday. The client admired to abide anonymous, Heritage said.

James Gannon, administrator of attenuate books at Heritage Auctions, said the armchair itself had little amount but its arcane affiliation fabricated it prized.

“She (Rowling) said at the time that it was something you would aces up at a clutter shop,” he said. “But it’s absolutely just the actuality that she took the time to adorn it and the actuality she in fact wrote the books on it that is important.”

Rowling’s seven Harry Potter books about a boy astrologer and his accompany accept become a common abnormality affairs added than 450 actor copies. The books aswell spawned eight blockbuster movies and affair esplanade attractions in Florida and California.

A few years afterwards the advertisement in 2000 of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” Rowling donated the armchair to an bargain benefiting a British children’s charity. Gray, a built-in of England and CEO of the car acceleration ascendancy aggregation Auto Kontrol USA, bought it in 2009 for about $29,000 at addition auction.

Gray said he hoped the armchair would now go on affectation in a building or one of the Harry Potter attractions. He aswell said he would accord 10 percent of Wednesday’s bargain profits to Rowling’s children’s alms Lumos.