_J.K._Rowling_-_Fantastic_Beasts_and_Where_to_Find_Them_20140530113147938_784

hundred and seventy-two Galleons, fourteen Sickles, and seven
Knuts).
It is now the wizarding world’s privilege to help Comic Relief
in their endeavour. You hold in your hands a duplicate of Harry
Potter’s own copy of Fantastic Beasts, complete with his and his
friends’ informative notes in the margins. Although Harry
seemed a trifle reluctant to allow this book to be reprinted in its
present form, our friends at Comic Relief feel that his small
additions will add to the entertaining tone of the book. Mr. Newt
Scamander, long since resigned to the relentless graffitiing of his
masterpiece, has agreed.
This edition of Fantastic Beasts will be sold at Flourish and
Blotts as well as in Muggle bookshops. Everyone involved in
getting this book to you, from the author to the publisher, to the
paper suppliers, printers, binders, and booksellers, contributed
their time, energy and materials free or at a reduced cost, making
it possible for twenty percent of the retail sales price less taxes
from the sale of this book to go to a fund set up in Harry Potter’s
name by Comic Relief U. K. and J. K. Rowling. This fund was
designed specifically to help children in need throughout the
world. Wizards wishing to make additional donations should do
so through Gringotts Wizarding Bank (ask for Griphook).
All that remains is for me to warn anyone who has read this far
without purchasing the book that it carries a Thief’s Curse. I
would like to take this opportunity to reassure Muggle purchasers
that the amusing creatures described hereafter are fictional and
cannot hurt you. To wizards, I say merely: Draco dormiens nunquam
titillandus.
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