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After a 10-year run, and less than a year after the seventh and final book in J. K. Rowling’s series was published, the Harry Potter books have fallen — as of the May 11 issue of the Book Review, which went to press last night — off The Times’s best-seller list.

He starts with: Rowling "feels like her words were stolen," said lawyer Dan Shallman. Well, heck, I feel like the plot of my novel Ender's Game was stolen by J.K. Rowling.

And ends with: Rowling has now shown herself to lack a brain, a heart and courage. Clearly, she needs to visit Oz.

The rest is vitriolic, brilliant commentary.

“It’s not about money,” concluded Rowling on the stand. “There’s a measure of principle at stake. And I’m determined to have my say as an author.” All in all, in our opinion, a fairly effective direct examination.

Absurdum is right. This fellow seems to be saying that because superstition and supernatural beliefs are not rational, the reader should not be permitted to suspend disbelief enough to enjoy a good supernatural story. “Rowling has induced millions of young people to cast aside reason…” Oh please. Ad absurdum…ad nauseam.

The owner of the Harry Potter Lexicon fan site is publishing an unofficial encyclopedic companion to the Harry Potter series based on the site and bearing the site’s name. Rowling is suing the publisher. She reserves the right to publish such a book herself. The publisher is undaunted, and the book will appear as scheduled.

Ok, so Dumbledore’s gay. Dare I say that this seems like a great way for Rowling to get herself back in the spotlight?

J.K. Rowling, Bloomsbury and Warner Brothers, have launched court action against a community group in India who created a life-sized Hogwarts castle. The display was to be part of a Hindu religious festival. The group says it had no idea that permission from the author was required.

A Stellenbosch family who bought the first Harry Potter novel at a bargain bookstore 10 years ago are on the verge of selling the rare edition copy for a whopping US$20 000

First the French kid did it, and now the Chinese kids are doing it. Rowlings stuck up for the former, and no charges were laid, but what will happen to the young Chinese translators in a communist country that’s recently come under fire for its copyright infringements?

With Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling's epic masterpiece of the eternal struggle between good and evil, freedom and tyranny, disguised cleverly as a series of children's books, comes to an awe inspiring end. School is out and Harry and his friends must now apply all that they have learned if they are to survive and triumph.