Reports from J.K. Rowling's Beedle the Bard tea party in Scotland from today are online:
She revealed during a tea party to mark the publication of The Tales of Beedle the Bard that she had been afraid of spiders since she was a child.
The multi-millionaire author said she gave the same fear to the character Ron Weasley, and then discovered that Rupert Grint, the actor who plays him in the films, was also afraid of spiders.
"I feel sorry for him, because I kept putting Ron in these situations where he had to encounter them," she added.Â
The author revealed why she decided to make the book much more widely available. "The idea actually came from you, by which I mean Harry Potter fans," she told the 200 primary school children gathered at Edinburgh's Parliament Hall.
"There was quite a lot of high feeling from Harry Potter fans that only someone who had £2 million could afford to read the book. I thought 'fair point', so I thought I'll publish it and then the charity can have that money too."
You can see photos here!
~Laurie
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