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Sep 14, 2006 (WENN via COMTEX) -- Acclaimed writer JK ROWLING was almost forced to sail home from New York after airline officials refused to let her take her HARRY POTTER manuscript in her hand luggage.
Recent security restrictions on airplanes mean items such as books and liquids are banned from carry-on luggage.
But Rowling refused to board the plane without taking the manuscript of the seventh and final Harry Potter book with her.
And luckily for Harry Potter fans across the world, Rowling was permitted to take the eagerly-awaited unfinished book on board with her.
She says, "The heightened security restrictions on the airlines made the journey back from New York interesting as I refused to be parted from the manuscript of book seven.
"A large part of it is hand-written and there was no copy of anything I had done while in the US. They let me take it on thankfully, bound up in elastic bands.
"I don't know what I would have done if they hadn't - sailed home probably." (FA/WNTRE/GES)
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