that literature and the humanities “should be valued and funded in our modern society because these are the fields that teach critical reading and thinking skills. We need scholars of the distant medieval past to care about how their work intersects with contemporary politics, even when they think it doesn’t — because it does, whether they like it or not.” has appealed a New York Supreme Court judge's decision While we've still yet to see concrete social media evidence of the two of them together, like a selfie or apuppy filter handwritten and hand-drawn by J.K. Rowling herself, sold at auction on Tuesday, and the bejeweled book fetched a whopping £368,750 — which is nearly $500,000 in U.S. dollars.Rowling wroteThe Tales of Beedle the Bard