You wouldn't be the first person to read a Harry Potter book and immediately dream of enrolling at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. However, unless you engage in a rather extensive drug regimen, the wonders of magic, blast-ended skrewts and whomping willows remain the stuff of fantasy. JK Rowling is offereing the next best thing though, auctioning off a pair of walk-on parts in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Raising money for Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland, Rowling has put two such opportunities on the auction block, to be bid on at a gala charity even next month. Before you go reaching for your chequebooks, we must war you that tickets for the event on 28 November are £175 each - not to mention the hefty sum that the Potter parts will doubtless go for. Still, for some muggles this will be a small price to pay.

Rowling has campaigned for the charity since her mother died from the illness 13 years ago. "Being able to campaign for multiple sclerosis is the most meaningful thing to have come out of being famous," she told the BBC. "It would mean everything to me if I thought even one person did not have to go through what my mother did."

I mean, come on, if i had the money, i'd be there!!