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A short "Harry Potter" prequel penned by J.K. Rowling prompted frenzied bidding at a London charity auction Tuesday and in the end sold for a whopping $50,000.
The 800-word story, written on a postcard-sized piece of paper, is set three years before Harry was born and features Sirius Black and James Potter, the boy wizard's soon-to-be father.
Proceeds from the Waterstone's What's Your Story? fundraiser will benefit the British branch of PEN, which promotes literature and defends freedom of expression, and a dyslexia charity.
Besides Rowling, 12 other authors submitted works for the fundraiser, including Canadian Margaret Atwood and English writers Nick Hornsby and Doris Lessing, the latter the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The auction raised just under $94,000 in total.
All of the authors' postcard-sized stories are now available to read on the Waterstone's website.
