Table JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter at saved after blaze at Edinburgh cafe

The table where JK Rowling wrote parts of Harry Potter has been saved from The Elephant House cafe.

A huge fire engulfed the building, damaging flats and businesses on George IV Bridge.

The BBC reports that the table where the author of the Harry Potter series wrote parts of the books sat, has been salvaged.

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JK Rowling visited The Elephant Cafe back in 1996 and 1997, after her first Harry Potter book was published.

She visited the cafe regularly and often sat at an antique wooden table.

Since the success of the franchise. the Elephant Cafe was a popular spot for tourists and Harry Potter fans. It was also included in the Harry Potter walking tours.

Speaking to BBC Scotland, the cafe's owner David Taylor said he was "immensely relieved" to find the table amongst the rubble.

The owner explained how he was only just been allowed to go into the cafe due to the construction work being done internally.

He said: "Thankfully I've found JK Rowling's table among the rubble and although it is water and smoke damaged it was in the back room so it can be saved.

"It is going to the restorers on Thursday and I'm just so relieved this bit of history has been retained."

Fire crews attend to a blaze which broke out at Edinburgh's George IV Bridge. (Getty Images)

He said a valuable signed Harry Potter book was still missing.

"There are piles of rubble everywhere so I'm hoping it is under one of them," he said. "I've started the search."

The table that JK Rowling had used has been there since the cafe opened. Taylor had owned the Elephant House Cafe for 25 years but has now had to close for year after the blaze.

He said: "To be out of business for about a year is just devastating and to say I'm upset is an understatement, it's very sad."

The fire that broke out in the morning on August 24, 2021, ripped through buildings on the George IV bridge, and smoked bellowed out of The Elephant Cafe and Patisserie Valerie Cafe.

According to a council briefing the incident started in the Patisserie Valerie Cafe and caused at least one floor to collapse in the building.