Carina Haouchine was a 15-year-old schoolgirl when she won one of only 15 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone competition prize editions in 2012. Now it is up for auction.
One of the rarest Harry Potter books ever published is set to fetch thousands of pounds at auction - after it survived being destroyed in a devastating Glasgow flat fire.
Carina's pristine copy will go under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers, Bishton Hall, Staffs., on September 5. She won it thanks to a competition organised by publisher Bloomsbury in 2012 to find the UK's biggest Harry Potter fan. Youngsters were invited to write a letter explaining why they loved Harry Potter and were encouraged to make their entry as elaborate as possible.
"I found out about the competition in a magazine. I really wanted to win the first prize of a family trip to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, especially as my little brothers were big Potter fans. Jim Spencer, head of Hansons' Library Auction, said: "This is technically the rarest edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."It's not recorded in the invaluable J K Rowling bibliography by Philip W Errington, which proves how scarce it is.
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