Rowling, WB file suit over companion book
Rowling, WB file suit over companion book J.K. Rowling updated the News Section of her official site earlier today saying that she could not approve of "companion books" or "encyclopedias" to her series.

The Harry Potter author and Warner Bros. filed suit in a Manhattan Court today against Harry Potter Lexicon owner Steve Vander Ark and several defendants for publishing "an unofficial encyclopedic companion to the 'Harry Potter' series," saying it "infringes copyright and attempts to cash in on the successful brand." The Harry Potter Lexicon is slated to be released by RDR Books on November 28.

Roger Rapoport, the publisher and owner of RDR Books said the companion novel "only promotes the sale of J.K. Rowling's work and we intend to publish on schedule as planned."

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Posted by member_of_SPEW Nov 1st 2007

I've got to go now; I'm going on a college visit this weekend and I need to go pack. But it's my last one! Say hi to all the cheesecakians at the convocation tonight for me! (Cheesecakian Convocation... that sounds good) Bye!


Posted by Potionmaster Nov 1st 2007

It's one thing to have a open website with all the HP information. It's another to sell a book and make money off of it. Also, from my understanding, this encyclopedia is set apart from all of the other companion books because everything from it is directly out of HP. The books like the ones that Mugglenet does are about the books, yes, but they are full of opinions and interpreptations of the plots. I stand behind JKR 100% on this issue and it disguests me that someone as well known and liked in the HP fandom would not listen to JKR's wishes.


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

CHEESCAKIAN MEETING!!! 6:00 EATERN TIME!!! CELEBRATE HP DAY!!!


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

its a really good black and white movie with audry hepburn!! It's awesome..oh and tonight after harry potter day im gonna watch titanic!!


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

why titanic???


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

when is HP day starting ??


Posted by lumosandnox Nov 1st 2007

Oh my lord. Come on people! SHE is the owner of Harry Potter! SHE gave us the world! So why not respect her wish of not publishing the book?? It's sounds to me like someone could care less about Jo, and they just want to make a scene. Why waste you money on something like that when she's going to write one herself?!!?!


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

anyone here? APRIL


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

6:00 eastern time


Posted by marisa91 Nov 1st 2007

heyy evrabuddddy XD i got the memo bout hp day. T-minus 10 minutes


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

IM SOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

6 minutes


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

5 minutes


Posted by marisa91 Nov 1st 2007

hey did everyone go out for halloween?


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

WHOOOOOO Yeah!! I was a cat!!! Hbu?


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

mine was terrible least i got candy


Posted by felixfelicis888 Nov 1st 2007

HAPPY HARRY POTTER DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--------- ---how is everyone? who's on? WOO-HOO HARRY POTTER DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *party music*


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

YIPPIE!! ITA ARIVED!!


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

Happy HP day everybody!! *Hands out cake that she made* Okkkaayy I admit ti, I bought it, didn't make it lol


Posted by marisa91 Nov 1st 2007

haha i was gothic, but it wasnt that good a costume.... i just wore red and black and a lot of black makeup...... my mom told me i looked like a "street walker". i didnt get that at first cuz i was like, um im trickortreating so yeh im gonna be walking in the street and then she explained to me. but she let me go out anyway. haha and then i went to my friends house and we watched ghost hunters and i got soooooooooo scared. haha so that was my entire nite in a nutshell..... anyway HAPPY HP DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!! XD XD


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

*becky walks in with cheesecake and brownies* HIYA EVERYONE! HAPPY HARRY POTTER DAY!!! *runs over to give a hug to Ari*


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

*looks at ari/april in shock* HP DAY!!! well this chesecake is great!!


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

Ha nice ari so hows everyone been?? I Have COOKIES!!


Posted by felixfelicis888 Nov 1st 2007

FIRSTLY, LET'S GIVING THANKS TO HARRY POTTER. IF IT WASN'T FOR HIM AND RON,HERMIONE,GINNY,HAGRID ,DUMBLEDORE,ALL THE WEASLEYS, AND WHOEVER ELSE, WE WOULD NOT HAVE THIS GREAT WEBSITE AND FANDOM TO BE APART OF. ALL HAIL JKR, AND ALL HAIL THE GREATEST SERIES: HARRY POTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

April---- *wipes tears of shame* Im sorry i ve dissapointed everyone:( lol. * gives thanks* :)


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

'Ere, 'ere Felix! *raises glass* hiya remi and rob! i am doing good, how are you guys?


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

well right now i am currently putting a cheesecake in the blender to make cheesecake milkshakes wait oh... *screams as the top of the blender pos off and peices of cheesckake fly evrywhere* and thanks to hp!!!


Posted by felixfelicis888 Nov 1st 2007

I'M GOOD, BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ALL DAY. Wait, let me turn off caps lock. lol. I was santa cluase for halloween. Oh and let me ask everyone, how did you get into Harry Potter? I'll tell you in my next comment :)


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

Yes ear ear!! I'm good... And i would like to add that if JKR had never invented Harry potter we would've never had mugglenet and without mugglenet we wouldn't be here celebrating and i wouldn't have such great mugglenet friends like you guys!!! GROUP HUG!! *virtually hugs everyone super tightly*


Posted by HPfanx14 Nov 1st 2007

HAPPY HARRY POTTER DAY! :] :P hey becky and everyone else !


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

I dunno, I just started reading the books in grade 1 cos Marie used to read them and then I got addicted at the first word!


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

well... i was 1 when the first book came out so... i first saw the movies [poa and cos] and my sister sort of liked them. i first just flipped trough them but then 3 years ago i officially read the first 3 all in one day and then the 4th and 5 th one 2 days later i then became officially addicted!!!!


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

Me too actually i started reading in 2nd grade when i got SS from my grandma who go it from a Borders store by accident and with in an instant those books became my one true love!


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

hiya hpfanx!!!! april i emailed you back. alright heres my story, when HP came out i was in high school and had no interest in it. i thought it was a kids book. but then i saw SS on HBO and really liked it, so i went and saw COS in theaters. during the summer of 2003 i went shopping for some beach reading. I saw the HP books in the front of the store(OOTP was coming out soon) and said hey i like the movies and the books are always better, so i picked up the first two for my vacation. i went home and had the first one finished before we even left, so i ran out and got POA and went on vaca. I finished COS and POA while on vaca and made my family drive to a city that had a Kmart so i could buy GOF. When I got back home i picked OOTP and havent put them down since. :-) (sorry that was rather long!) oh i only had one book spoiled for me. HBP i had heard rumors of Dumbledores death before the book came out.


Posted by HPfanx14 Nov 1st 2007

i knew about harry potter for a while b/c my sister obsesed over them. and by like the 2nd grade she started raeding them to me and ever since i've been hoooked :P


Posted by marisa91 Nov 1st 2007

i started reading them when my bro was reading them. haha my mom thought there was a problem with him cuz he never read ever. like he could, he just didnt. and she thought that wasnt normal. so she heard about hp i think around after the 2nd book came out and how kids loved them even if they did like books so she bought them for him and i kinda picked them up instead and after that we bought the rest like as soon as they came out. so ikinda grew up with them *smiles nostalgicly*


Posted by felixfelicis888 Nov 1st 2007

YES!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you jk rowling!!!!!!!!! ok, so my hp obsession started on a cold, foggy ni-. jk lol. Well actually when I was 7, my best friend (who now lives in california) asked me if I wanted to go see sorcerers stone for his b-day party. I was like, uh no. I was too critical of books at the time, and also I was a little stupid too. lol anyway, I say it anyway, and I loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bought the first book and read it. The I got the second book and loved it too. Then for christmas I got the 3rd book. LOVED IT. The 4th book i think was already out, so i got it LOVED IT also. Then, there was the slightly long gap between 4-5, but when OotP came out, I got it the same day. By then, I was hooked. I did the same thing for book 6. For book seven, I went at the midnight party. IT WAS AWSOME, and DH RULED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

did i say poa? i meant ss now how did everyone become a cheesecakian i became one for 3 monts and i have the page i became a cheesecakian saved on my favorires!!!!!! http://www.mugglenet.com/ app/news/show/1171/page/4


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

I think you spellen nostalgicly wrong marisa lol. Its ok , i suck at spelling too. :D


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

I think you spellen nostalgicly wrong marisa lol. Its ok , i suck at spelling too. :D


Posted by ccunni Nov 1st 2007

Hi cant stay lbut i wanted 2 say happy hp day 2 everyone-g2g bye but ill be back!


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

lol thats so cool rob! i dont remember the date or anything, but Ari was the first one to talk to me on here and be nice and i saw her talking to dannyrob and hallowsaint and i thought they were freaking hilarious. they mentioned being a cheesecakian and asked how i could be one too. i definitely wasnt the first one after those three, but the group was rather small when i joined.


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

Aw iI remeber becoming a cheesecakian!! Ari and me were talking then she told me to go down to the sencound post where most of you guys were!! I rember it like it was yesterday *tear*


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

august 10 2007 a great day!!!!!!!! except aberforth came on and started insulting us


Posted by felixfelicis888 Nov 1st 2007

I actually don't like cheesecake. I like cheeseburgers though. Oh and when did you guys find MuggleNet?


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

I found mN a loooon gtime ago, but I found the comments board only on July 3 in the London premiere. THen Marie and Ari found it afterwards :D


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

I found mugglenet by accident actually i google something about harry potter and mugglenet came up!! So i signed up and with in a few days i was a cheesecakian!!


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

April, where is Ari??? i cant remember when i found MN..... i know i have been checking it for over a year or two, but i didnt start checking it regularly til this spring.


Posted by HPfanx14 Nov 1st 2007

i knew about mugglenet for like ever cuz my sister told me about it, but i never really bothereed goin on it much. and i was tlkin to danny and ari when i first found out about cheesecakians


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

early 2007 i didnt become a cheesecakian till months later i dont remember how i found it




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