London, December 4 : Thousands of Harry Potter fans, including those who especially flew down from around the world, had lined up until midnight to grab the new book in the series.

Voracious readers flocked to London to get hold of the first copies of author J. K. Rowling’s ‘The Tales of Beedle the Bard’, which is expected to become an international best-seller.

The collection of short stories mentioned in the final book of the boy wizard series has had a global print count of nearly 7.5 million copies, reports the Telegraph.

London, December 3 : Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling’s new charity book, which is her unofficial farewell to the boy wizard’s adventures, goes on sale on Wednesday.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which finds a mention in the final Potter book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, comprises of five fairy tales.

One of the five tales is ‘The Tale of the Three Brothers’ that contains clues that were to prove crucial to Potter’s final mission to destroy Lord Voldemort.

The tome will be distributed by Bloomsbury in Britain, and by Scholastic in the US.