Fourth Harry Potter book read aloud to dying girl in 2000

JK Rowling read the unfinished manuscript for the fourth Harry Potter book over the phone for an American girl who was dying of cancer.

Rowling e-mailed Catie back with some tantalizing snippets from her fourth book — "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" — and then phoned her in Albany, New York to read extracts.

"Catie's face just lit up," her mother recalled.

After the child's death, Rowling e-mailed her parents to say: "I consider myself privileged to have had contact with Catie…I am crying so hard as I type. She left footprints on my heart."

That really is a menschy thing to have done, and nevermind any cheap-shots about Rowlings's fans dying for a sequel.

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