Watch: Original ‘Harry Potter’ cover art sells for $1.9 million at auction

The original watercolor illustration for the first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” – the book that introduced the world to the young bespectacled wizard – sold for $1.9 million on Wednesday.The artwork becomes “the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold at auction”, auction house Sotheby’s said in a statement. “The illustration...