It’s all true, and the incontrovertible proof has gone on display in the British Library. I’ve just seen it and was mesmerised …”Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sketch titled The Boy who Lived. There are several pages that never made it into the final version of the first Harry Potter book, where Ron and Harry were to have crashed the flying car into a mermaid-infested lake rather than the Whomping Willow. Take the question of potions, which we now see as magical but in medieval times were a recognised element of medicine. I would like to think I could do a little bit of magic, and sometimes I almost feel I can.”

Source: The Guardian October 18, 2017 15:56 UTC