Bookmaker William Hill has revealed that the ending of the final Harry Potter book has cost dearly to the company.
Washington, August 9 : Bookmaker William Hill has revealed that the ending of the final Harry Potter book has cost dearly to the company.
The firm had taken bets summing up to 50,000 pounds in the run-up to the much-awaited publication of the final instalment of JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
For the taking was the key question of whether the hero, Harry Potter, committed suicide or was killed by Voldemort. And, William Hill had asserted that all bets would be returned if Potter survived.
But as it turned out, Potter survives and is seen to be happily married 19 years later on in the book's epilogue.
"You're left with a pretty disastrous situation whereby you have to give pretty much all them their money back," Contactmusic quoted William Hill spokesperson Rupert Adams, as saying.
"Because we didn't want anyone to be extremely aggrieved... it got to a stage that we had to pay out on those two," he added.
Adams said the firm would not sustain any major financial loss because the sums involved were "not massive".
"It's the equivalent of Rooney being the first goalscorer in a football match," he said.
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