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Mum's Harry Potter book she bought for £1 is worth £30k now – leaving kids gobsmacked
Harry Potter book their late mum bought for them for just £1 is worth £30,000.The former primary school teacher, who sadly died of breast cancer aged 44 in 2005, was passionate about encouraging her children to read and filled their house with books.However, as well as the gift of reading, she also unknowingly left them a windfall after buying the book for them at a school fete.The copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, bought around 20 years ago, is one of only 500 ever printed.It will go up for auction at Hansons Auctioneers in Staffordshire, where it is expected to fetch between £20,000-£30,000 - however, it could make much more.The woman's eldest daughter, who doesn't want to be named, said the book had just been sat on the