December 13, 2002 at 12:31 PM ET
The Leaky Cauldron
"A card with 93 words written by JK Rowling about the next Harry Potter book was auctioned yesterday and the proceeds are being donated to Book Aid International. It's a truly amazing result for us and will allow us to provide 18,500 books for schools in Eritrea and other African countries!! ... We're also going to receive around £15,000 because of the amazing generosity of Harry Potter fans around the world who put together a group bid via the US based Leaky Cauldron website. They wanted to buy the card so that Harry Potter fans could read about JK Rowling's plans for her next book ... [N]eedless to say we are hugely grateful to each and every one of the donors who gave in response to the appeal from the Leaky Cauldron. You can be sure that every dollar donated will make a difference ..." (Read the entire article on their news page.)