39-years-old breaks Guinness World Record with largest Harry Potter memorabilia
Last updated on: 26 March,2019 05:17 pm
It includes her favorite and rarest item, a 24-carat gold-plated golden snitch puzzle from Japan.
(Web Desk) – Victoria Maclean, a 39-years-old mum of three, embedded her name in the Guinness World Record after collecting the largest Harry Potter collection memorabilia for 18 years in South Wales.
It took her 18 years to gather the staggering 3,686 pieces she has in her home.
A 24-carat gold-plated golden snitch puzzle from Japan is her favorite and rarest item among every collectibles.
She told Guinness World Records adjudicators: "I think it came out around the time as Chamber of Secrets. Five thousand of them were made and to get hold of that took me about six months.”
"But don’t take it apart, because it s really hard to put back together!"
Ms. Maclean said her obsession with J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts started when she was 21, when she read the first book from the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone in 2001, four years after it was published.
Since then, she has gone on to collect everything in sight.