Subscribe via RSS 2.0by Rhonda Greenaway - Tuesday Apr 15 2008 3:04 pm
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Harry Potter author was near tears while giving evidence yesterday in the copyright case being heard in front of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, according to The Guardian newspaper. Warner Brothers and Rowling want to block publication of an unauthorized Harry Potter encyclopedia by Michigan-based RDR Books.
Rowling had scathing words for , the author of The Lexicon, calling his work "sloppy, lazy and it takes my work wholesale."
She also said her characters "meant so much to me over such a long period of time ... it's the closest thing to having a child."
The publisher's lawyer asserted Rowling and Warner Brothers had both used Vander Ark as a resource for the books and the films.
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Book #1This cult children's classic is the story of Harry Potter, an ordinary boy, who lives in a cupboard under the stairs. Harry has an extremely ordinary life until a strange letter arrives for ...
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Book #2Join Harry, Ron and Hermione as they return to Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for their second year of studies. Harry learns that he can communicate with snakes, and must searc...
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Book #3 Harry practices some faulty magic on a dreadful aunt, and the results have him so worried that he leaves the home where he spends his summers with his aunt, uncle, and cousin and wanders of...
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Harry Potter is fourteen years old and sets off see the Quidditch World Cup and discover girls during his summer holidays from Hogwarts. But be warned. For despite Rowling's perennially funny pros...
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Book #5Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,' he said, 'for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. ...
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling, is the sixth in the bestselling Harry Potter series.In the previous book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the last chapter, title...
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Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing--if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he ful...
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