I may be one of a (very small) minority, but I don't think the 'Tales' should be published. Even though I'm a huge HP fan, I'd like to think that I appreciate the series as a writer as well as a reader. I like loose ends, unexplored/unresolved plots - they make stories interesting.Why does every loose end of the story have to be satisfied because of her "obligation to her fans" ? We survived without knowing what happend at the end of the Sopranos - I think we can live without a few wizarding fairy tales. And even if she eventually published the 'Tales', readers would be satisfied for, hmm, 4 hours at the most (average reading of 600+ page HP book for average rabid fan = 2 days) before clamoring about Rowling needing to write an account of what happend between the 19 years of the last two chapters in book 7.
Or a copy of Rita Skeeter's tell-all book about Dumbledore.
Or, just for kicks, a short, 10-book series on the Marauders (Hogwarts years and leading up to James and Lily's deaths)
Or a small string of Martin the Mad Muggle comic books (with a follow-up movie, perhaps. By Marvel.)
So to those 6 people with copies of the 'Tale', more power to you. I think the only reason that we even KNOW about the manuscript's existence was to raise more money for the auction.
($3.98 million dollars for one book? Mission -freakin' - accomplished.)
My guess is that the only way the rest of us poor schlubs will end up seeing a copy of it will be after waiting for hours in line at Harry Potter Land to catch a painfully short glimpse of it behind 7-inch bulletproof glass, a la the Hope Diamond. Or Mona Lisa.