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Harry Potter’s school uniform and glasses from ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,’ Princess Leia’s dress from ’Star Wars’ and an evil clown doll from ‘Poltergeist’ are up for auction later this month in Los Angeles.

Princess Leia’s Dress Could Be Yours, if You Have $1 Million Lying Around

Props from ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Poltergeist’ and ‘Harry Potter’ will be up for auction this month; the dress worn by Carrie Fisher turned up in a London attic

By Erich Schwartzel

| Photographs by Alisha Jucevic for The Wall Street Journal

Updated June 23, 2023 12:00 am ET

For years, the ceremonial dress worn by Princess Leia in the final scene of 1977’s “Star Wars” sat folded in an anonymous London attic, its only audience the moths eating holes through its white fabric.

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