The British Library in London currently has a veritable goldmine papering its walls. Its Harry Potter exhibition is an eclectic curation of old books, scrolls and ephemera that have some (occasionally tenuous) connection to JK Rowling’s world. Facebook Twitter Pinterest JK Rowling’s original handwritten draft of chapter 17 of The Philosopher’s Stone. Rowling’s scratched out, scrawled pages show the extensive tweaking she performed on her writing, from The Philosopher’s Stone to The Deathly Hallows. The short-term brain freezes are visible (“‘Hermione, let me down!’ Harry yelled”, is scrawled out on a page of The Deathly Hallows and replaced with just: “‘X’ yelled Harry”).

Source: The Guardian October 20, 2017 07:52 UTC