Artwork now most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold

The illustration for the first book sold for $1.9m - more than three times the expected price.

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The artwork for the first edition of JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone sold for more than three times the expected price.

It was first auctioned in 2001, before the book series was complete, for £85,750 (about $108,000 at current exchange rates).

"This is really the first visualization of Harry and the wizarding world," said Kalika Sands from Sotheby's auction house.

The artwork had been expected to sell for between $400,000 and $600,000, which Sotheby's said was the highest pre-sale estimate for a Harry Potter-related work.

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