“Rowling, an unknown a decade ago when she introduced her magical character in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” gave a midnight reading to 500 competition-winning children in the grand Victorian surroundings of London’s Natural History Museum. Now richer than the queen, she sat in a large wing-backed chair and read the opening pages _ description of a mysterious assignation, a clandestine meeting and important news for Voldemort. ”
“Rowling, who wrote the first Potter book as a single mother receiving state benefits, has made an estimated one billion dollars (725 million euros) from the works and is now richer than Queen Elizabeth II.”
*double WOWs*
lols.
full article available at http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20070721/ten-harry-potter-5e343d7.html & http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070721/tts-entertainment-britain-cac1e9b.html
