The Wait For The Mystery Collector Continues

  December 14, 2002 at 10:43 AM ET
      iharrypotter.net
 

LONDON - An American collector has paid more than $45,000 for a card full of clues to the plot of the long-awaited fifth Harry Potter book.

The unidentified buyer made the winning bid Thursday for the card, handwritten by author J.K. Rowling as a charity fund-raiser. The money will be used to buy more than 18,000 books for schools in Africa.

Whether the buyer, who paid $45,314 for the card, chooses to keep the contents secret remains to be seen.

..."It's a wonderful Christmas present for readers in some of the world's poorest countries," said director Sara Harrity of Book Aid International.

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