Comments on: JK Rowling in Court to Challenge a Harry Potter Lexicon

By: Rodney

Rodney — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:17:49 +0000

Rachel, JK had said she might do an encyclopedia and then flipflopped on it and finally said she wouldn’t be writing any more Harry Potter books. But this is not the point.

The point is that this intrepid fan gathered all the information from JKs works and intended to profit from it. It doesn’t matter if she wanted to do a book like this or not. It wasn’t his to write, and he does not own the copyright to these characters.

It is simply flat out illegal for him to publish this.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:01:03 +0000

I’m coming into this late, but I wanted to point out that she’d been intending to write her own official “lexicon,” which would be an elaborate guide on what happened to all the characters after the stories ended and would give readers vast stores of knowledge about side characters whose stories never got into the books (like Seamus Finnigan, for one) for a long time.

As I recall, the word about that lexicon was out practically before the seventh book even hit shelves, or at least right afterward- by the time I finished the seventh (a couple days to a week after) I’d heard she would be explaining what had happened to everyone when it was all over in another little book, in the style of her encyclopedia of monsters and the little “Quidditch Through the Ages” book.

By: Camille

Camille — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:08:57 +0000

Before I would’ve said that the guy should win but now… Jk rowling owns Harry Potter, and even though she’s finished the story, that doesn’t mean fans should start writing about it and taking the money for it. However, if this guy donated ALL the money to charity that would be noble and everyone wins. He should go along with his website instead.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:56:52 +0000

As I understand it, Rowling is planning on writing an encyclopedia of her own. I imagine she doesn’t want an unofficial one to come out first. Seems reasonable. If the guy is such a fan, I would think he would want to go along with Rowling’s wishes.

By: Omar

Omar — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:23:27 +0000

Wouldn’t it have made more sense for him to offer Rowling’s people the chance to publish the book and then make it “Official”. Or even better, have Rowling’s people offer him the chance to publish the book.
But the guy has no right to try and make money of the Potter name just because he’s a dedicated fan. This work was his choice to make and it was his choice to do it for free.

By: Slushie Man

Slushie Man — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:17:36 +0000

I hope J.K. Rowling slams him into the ground in court. He deserves it.

And the new book is a new children’s book. After she finished Harry Potter (Of which I still have yet to read the final two books, not a HUGE fan of HP, but I enjoy them when I have nothing else to read), she stated she was beginning work on some new children stories and that she doesn’t want to be known solely for Harry Potter, but for all her children’s stories.