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 marisa91 Nov 1st 2007

rob1007- i just went there and omg i remember that!!! haha. my becoming a cheesecakian was weird..... i went on and sirius_lee {ari i guess} and hallowsaint {MISS HIM!!!!!!! what happened to him?????????} were spamming the posts with tiki tiki tiki and stuff and i apparently offended them and hallowsaint told me i needed to go on a mission to ask the great cheesecake or something for forgiveness and before i went i had to take the oath. it was actually really funny im gonna see if i can find the page. hold on.


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

Yea, Ari used to hate you marisa. Aris up you r butt and around the corner Becky lol :D


Posted by felixfelicis888 Nov 1st 2007

yeah I knew it for a while, but I only got hooked like 6 months ago... I'm eating dinner... my next comment might be in like 10 minutes.


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

you snotty little toerag!!! :-p *shakes my cane at you*


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

Intersting so April do me and favor and tell Ari and Marie i say HI!! Oh and tahat i send they each hugs that could strangle the life outta them!!


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

yeah weird you can just search your username on google with mugglenet example: rob1007 mugglenet you can find reral old posts and it bring back great memories


Posted by harry8voldemort Nov 1st 2007

remi u watch bones? i can't remember if i asked that already!


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

*dodges cane*Aww, but at least my toes are clean!! which is more then I can say for most people lol:P


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

OH i forgot, LadyM, MissMalfoy, Ruby_321, and Lidietta all say hi! unfortunately they are our international friends are it is anywhere from 10p to Midnight there time.


Posted by harry8voldemort Nov 1st 2007

your right rob!


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

too bad they cant be here!


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

*Waves at everyone* see yall later, i gotta go now, but ill be bakc. DON"T CRY BECKY HEYYY I SAI DON"T CRYY!!!!!!!! lol :P :D


Posted by marisa91 Nov 1st 2007

heres where i became a cheesecakian!!!! http://www.mugglenet.com/ app/news/show/1163/page/6 .....yea ari used to be kinda rude to me all the time...... she had times when she just kinda blew up it seemed like...... w/e. did anyone else here get those emails from her? what was she taling about??


Posted by HPfanx14 Nov 1st 2007

yum yum yum. i love perogies :]


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

Yeah Angela i did!! IT WAS AHMAZING!!! HI GUYS!!! Maybe they'll look back at this post and see us saying hi!


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

Marisa, looooong story, but heres a quick summary. a person named wannabe_lee came on MN and was talking to Grnd and felix. they thought it was Ari and were teasing wannabe_lee. wannabe said his name was calvin and that he lived in Michigan. Ari comes and sees the comments and takes them personally and then sends the emails. i believe everything is alright now.


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

this is fun!!! make it your number 1 favorire!


Posted by Marie_Lee Nov 1st 2007

no ari dont go!!!! *cries*


Posted by marisa91 Nov 1st 2007

remi- yeh i hope so. HI TO THOSE WHO WERENT HERE :) ah i see becky........ somehow no part of this surprises me........


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

Yeah poor Ari i felt so bad when i read her emails...I hope she feels better now! Ha did i tell you guys that my english teacher got a $200 dollar ticket on tuesday i believe!! She was talking on her cell phone and she got a ticket!! It was quite funny when she told us!


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

oh i love perogies hpfanx!!! yummmmmmmm!!! what kind are you eating?? hiya marie or ari! which one? *big hug either way*


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

LETS GET THIS HP PARTYA STARTED!!!!!!!!!! YES THATS RITE THE FUN IS HERE!! INRODUCING ARIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! :d yeah guys im heree....


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

YIPPIE!! ARI!!! *claps hands*


Posted by Marie_Lee Nov 1st 2007

but a bigger hug if its marie right? hey ari.... im giggling, its so funny talking to u over the net..... yeah, i know ppl here r staring at me, im in the library...


Posted by Grnd3lW4Ld Nov 1st 2007

hey im on


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

WHOOOO HOOO HIYA ARI!!! how are you doing?? here have some cheesecake!


Posted by HPfanx14 Nov 1st 2007

hmmm... i think ari is here. lol and just plain perogies becky. i ate like 8 haha. fatty? i think so. soo ill start the Kareokee off with our song by taylor swift *i was ridin shot gun with my hair undone in the front seat of his car.. * (yah, i cant spell kareokee.)


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

okay yea i was sorta giglling too til u said that *galres as marie kills it* no no no ari needs bigger hugs cuz u noe.... i was owndering where u wre marie... *bows forr emi* lol! hi!!


Posted by rob1007 Nov 1st 2007

ari!! how come i didnt get an email!!!! lol dinner brb


Posted by honeydukes0209 Nov 1st 2007

Heeeeey everyone! i'm back from school!!! yaya!!!! HAPPY HARRY POTTER DAY!!!!!!


Posted by marisa91 Nov 1st 2007

wow it really is a parttttayyyyy!!!!!!! XD how many ppl are on now, like all the american cheesecakians almost? felix, still here? rob?


Posted by Marie_Lee Nov 1st 2007

no.... tsk tsk ari, its clear marie gets a bigger hug, cuz marie is so much cooler than that ari girl.... *hugs becky back and steals perogies* oh hey grindel! hey ari, maybe we should start a war over grindel again! jk to everyone that just groaned--- u know who u are!


Posted by HPfanx14 Nov 1st 2007

heyy honeyy, happy HP day to yu too :]


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

Ha guys thanks for the bow Ari!!! So Marie why ar you at the library?


Posted by Grnd3lW4Ld Nov 1st 2007

CHEESECAKE IS TOO RICH FOR MY LIKING TO TELL THE TRUTH.


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

yea and grinds will ignore us for a mionth again!! :P lol!! im joking!! hi beckyyyyyyyy!!!!!!! hi kayla grinds and rob and anyone else i missed.... *looks at marie*


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

hiya honey! hiya marie! *BIG HUG* Ari, *BIG HUG* I love ya both!!! how is everyone doing? hey everyone who hasnt shared their stories about how they found HP share them!!! oh and Ari you gotta look and see what April said about finding MN.


Posted by member_of_SPEW Nov 1st 2007

hey cheesecakes, I can't chat but I just wanted to say hi! Happy Harry Potter Day! Remember to plan for Epilogue Day (September 1 2017)!!!


Posted by Wolfstar Nov 1st 2007

Sucks to be Steve, but he's totally in the wrong here. With JK being so friendly with her fans, and her books being so huge, and the ridiculous amount of fanfiction there is around it's easy to start to feel like the HP world doesn't belong to anyone, that it's shared by all of us. The fact is, JK imagined every last detail of this world which she decided to share with us, so she owns the lot. Try putting yourself in her shoes. You spend two decades coming up with something as incredible, intricate, well-known and well-loved as the HP books, and then some other person (whether you've been friendly with them in the past or not) comes along and decides to make their own book out of what you've imagined and sell it for their own gain, you'd be pretty pissed too.


Posted by marisa91 Nov 1st 2007

hi honey and marie and grn3lw4ld and SPEW. :) (and haha marie i do know who i am) so how'd u guys find MN?


Posted by Grnd3lW4Ld Nov 1st 2007

Wolfstar, the hp books are great and enjoyable and all but looking at many aspects its terribly unoriginal. jk has no place to be suing her own fans for providing a service to other fans.


Posted by HPfanx14 Nov 1st 2007

so how about down the library that held the harry potter release party, and there is still the hogwarts hufflepuff griffindor sytherin and ravenclaw signs are still hangin up. i was so tempted to go take them but they were up high and i would look stupid climbing up the ledge. lol


Posted by sirius_lee Nov 1st 2007

omg, wow!!! april MUST be retarded wut du u think marie... lol! actually i have been here for yeaarrrs!!!!!!! with different accounts cuz there wre so many names to go thru!!! :O and she got on over the summer as reader and everyone made fun of her..... yeah.... how can u not like cheesecake? i found hp when i was being a show off and reading "big kid books" but i got hooked... i found mn when i went on google and looked up harry potter sites.... yeah........


Posted by REMiiSAHMAZiNGx4 Nov 1st 2007

Well my lovers of Harry Potter... I must bid adue to you and you and yououuu GODD BYEEE (sorry the song totally fitted in with the moment) HAPPY HARRY POTTER DAY TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT!!!


Posted by Marie_Lee Nov 1st 2007

umm.... i dunno, cant remember... it is the first thing that pops up on google for harry poter sites... ahhh ari, i believe the ignoring has begun.... alas...... *coughs* i read hp just to prove my friend wrong, who said it was the worst book ever.... *coughs again* oh, did i say my friend, i meant april...... *dies of a coughing fit* the guy beside me is smoking! imma die ari, help me!!


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

yeah i was laughing when she said that too since i had been talking to you since the spring time, but i just let it go. anyways! i want HP banners!! you should totally get them Kayla!


Posted by harry8voldemort Nov 1st 2007

im back my dad needed the computer omg i got 9 pounds of candy on halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg today in reading my teacher started to talk to herself ! l.o.l


Posted by lilbecky8 Nov 1st 2007

bye remi! have a good night!


Posted by felixfelicis888 Nov 1st 2007

hey guys, sorry my dad is on the computer :( I'll be on as soon as he gets off....


Posted by honeydukes0209 Nov 1st 2007

hey everyone again...lol i kinda zoned...i just wanted to tel you that i can't chat as much today...i have the math test that determines the beginning...or end of my life...so i have TONS of studying to do...*sigh*...and it just haaad to be HP day!! everyone pleaase wish me luck! :D




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