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  • May 2008

    • JK Rowling Pens Potter Prequel

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 29, 08 3:49 AM CDT

      JK Rowling Pens Potter Prequel

      (Newser) - Harry Potter fans mourned when JK Rowling ended the enormously popular schoolboy wizard saga with the seventh and final book last year. But now she has written a surprise short prequel likely to trigger a bidding frenzy. Rowling has donated an 800-word handwritten manuscript to the British bookseller Waterstone's to be auctioned for charity. More »

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      Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • Harry Potter Lexicon  • witches

  • April 2008

    • Harry Potter Full of Gibberish, Judge Says

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Apr 17, 08 7:59 PM CDT

      Harry Potter Full of Gibberish, Judge Says

      (Newser) - The judge in the Harry Potter copyright case gave the man who compiled The Harry Potter Lexicon a one-up against JK Rowling today when he announced that her books were full of gibberish, the Telegraph reports. He said he tried reading one to his grandkids and found it "extremely complex" and suggested that a guidebook would be handy. He won't issue his ruling for several weeks and urged both sides to settle out of court. More »

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      trial  • Harry Potter  • copyright  • JK Rowling  • copyright infringement  • plagiarism  • Harry Potter Lexicon

    • Embattled Potter Fan Moved to Tears in Court

      Associated Press  |  Apr 15, 08 5:21 PM CDT

      Embattled Potter Fan Moved to Tears in Court

      (Newser) - The Harry Potter fan whose attempt to put into print his encyclopedic companion brought a lawsuit from author JK Rowling, broke down in tears in a Manhattan court today discussing how much the books mean to him, the AP reports. Steven Vander Ark became distraught when asked how the lawsuit had affected his relationship with the world of Potter fans. More »

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      Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • Harry Potter Lexicon  • Steven Vander Ark

    • Rowling Slams Potter Reference Project in Court

      New York Times  |  Apr 14, 08 3:21 PM CDT

      Rowling Slams Potter Reference Project in Court

      (Newser) - Author JK Rowling today slammed a planned print version of a fan's Harry Potter Lexicon as exploiting her ideas, the New York Times reports. “My readership parting with their or their parents’ hard earned cash for this—I think it’s a travesty," Potter's creator complained in court. Rowling praised the original Web incarnation, but objects to publishing a book for profit. More »

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      Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • Harry Potter Lexicon

  • March 2008

    • JK Rowling Considered Suicide

      Times (UK)  |  Mar 23, 08 10:01 AM CDT

      JK Rowling Considered Suicide

      (Newser) - Before Harry Potter came along, his creator was broke, recently divorced, depressed, and near suicide, reports the Times of London. JK Rowling was a mom in her mid-20s, living in a cramped apartment paid for by a friend when she sought professional help. “We’re talking suicidal thoughts here, we’re not talking ‘I’m a little bit miserable,'” she told a student magazine at Edinburgh University. More »

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      suicide  • Harry Potter  • depression  • JK Rowling  • billionaire  • English literature  • Harry Potter Lexicon

  • February 2008

    • Rowling Blasts Unauthorized Spinoff

      New York Daily News  |  Feb 29, 08 2:15 PM CST

      Rowling Blasts Unauthorized Spinoff

      (Newser) - As part of her ongoing effort to keep a fan from publishing a Harry Potter encyclopedia, J.K. Rowling is suggesting that the book would violate the wizarding world's moral and ethical standards, reports the New York Daily News . “I am very frustrated that a former fan has tried to co-opt my work for financial gain,” she wrote in a letter to a federal judge. More »

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      Harry Potter  • JK Rowling  • Harry Potter Lexicon  • encyclopedia  • Steven Vander Ark

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