JK Rowling's new Harry Potter spin-off – a collection of short stories mentioned in the final book of the boy wizard series – goes on sale today. All profits are going to Rowling's charity for vulnerable children in Eastern Europe.
The book is based on a volume of five wizard fairy tales bequeathed by Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, to Harry's friend Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It helped provide clues to help the boy wizard defeat his great enemy, Lord Voldemort.
One of the fairy tales, The Tale Of The Three Brothers, is recounted in Deathy Hallows, but the other four are entirely new: The Fountain Of Fair Fortune; The Warlock's Hairy Heart; The Wizard And The Hopping Pot; and Babbitty Rabbitty And Her Cackling Stump.
