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Rowling Goes Easy on Teen Translator

Posted Aug 13, 07 11:24 AM CDT in Business,  Arts & Living,  World 

(Newser) – JK Rowling has agreed not to prosecute a 16-year-old who got the jump on France’s October “Deathly Hallows” release date by posting his own translation online. The young Frenchman said he never attempted to make money from his work, the BBC reported .

Authorities were impressed by the “near-professional” quality of the boy’s language. Other unauthorized “Hallows” translations are drawing eager foreign eyes, including one in China. Rowling can’t be too worried about her sales, though, as her final Harry Potter tale is the fastest-selling book ever, moving 11 million copies in its first day alone.

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Fans wait to buy copies of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final volume of the Harry Potter series, at a bookstore in Beijing, in this Saturday July 21, 2007 file photo. The final...   (Associated Press)
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