Harry Potter original cover art to go under the hammer

The original artwork from the first two Harry Potter books will be sold at an auction in Los Angeles soon.

The artwork was created by Brit artist Cliff Wright in ink and watercolour for the covers of 1998's Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the BBC reported.

The Chamber of Secrets artwork has a starting price of $20,000 and features Harry and Ron Weasley in the flying Ford Anglia, with the boy wizard's owl Hedwig in the back seat.

The other sketch, for 1999's The Prisoner of Azkaban, shows Harry and friend Hermione Granger riding on Buckbeak , whose starting price for bids is $12,500.