The Scotsman is reporting that a chair which J.K. Rowling sat on to wirte the first two Harry Potter books made £20,000 at a re-auction.
The item previously sold for £15,000 to the NSPCC in 2002, however made £20,000 to benefit Books Abroad, a charity which sends free school books to impoverished countries, this time round.
For since sitting at the chair to write her first two novels – Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Rowling went on to decorate it with several painted slogans including the words: "I wrote Harry Potter while sitting on this chair."
She originally donated it to a charity auction, called Chair-ish a Child, which was held in aid of the NSPCC in 2002 when it was sold for £15,000.
However, it was recently put up for auction on eBay by its previous owner with 20 per cent of the proceeds going to the charity Books Abroad, which sends free school books to impoverished countries.
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