Willy the Wizard indeed! anyone else offended that HP's likened to willy? LOL

Geez, how desperate can you get? Leave Rowling alone, she plaigarized nothing.

I am between being incredibly mad and laughing about this. People keep trying to tap into the financial wealth of Harry Potter by claiming plagiarism, and all of it has been COMPLETELY unfounded. I wish people would stop trying to be Potter parasites, and figure out their own way to make money. This author is dead, I doubt he would sue Bloomsburry if he were alive to make the decision.

Fawkes: tru dat! DH712: Indeed...

that is completely ridiculous! i mean..really. i think someone is just a little bitter that their author's wizard story didnt get as popular as harry potter. it probably doesnt even deserve to be used in the same sentence as hp..much less compared to it. jk rowling did not steal people ideas obviously. her stories are so unique and creative. i agree with Feathery_Golden_Snidget.. people should stop trying to get into the money hp makes. :]

WOW that's soo dumb

That's so dumb. Who gives a dam(n)? They're their own books. Nobody cares. It just makes them look ad when they file a lawsuit. Wow.

LOL I needed a laugh...

What! That is bloody mental!!! >:P That is wrong! Oh, honestly, how in Merlin's Beard is supposed to have plagiarized if she has never even heard of it! And if you ask me, that kind of plot is rather common in high fantasy, whether it be in the tournament or not, the there is almost always some one to rescued and a bathroom is an odd place to think so that is just coincidence! As for merpeople, c'mon, half-bloods as baddies are very common, werewolves, centaurs, a lot of fantasy animals are half-breeds! And if you are going to sue about a creature, then that is kind of like suing Christopher Tolkien suing for use of elves in other books!

Merlin's pants! (as Hermione exclaimed in DH lol) Completely bogus. Anything to make money off of Jo's hard-earned success.

THE DEAD MAN CAN GO AND FUCKK HIMSELF! WORTHLESS GIT! LOL

What in the name of merlin's baggy y-fronts?!?! Any accusation of plaigerism should be investigsted, but this seems ridic. Looks like someone is after money from one of richest women in the world. I think this authors estate should be sued by jk for even suggesting hid story comes close to the brilliance of harry potter.

That's just stupid!! No way!! OMG! some people are just URGH!! people wud have to be stupid to think this is true.

What I really, really love is that if you go to the OFFICIAL (and *ahem* newly constructed) Willy the Wizard website, you'll see how they (I'm assuming the author's estate) have posted excerpts from the booklet that REALLY REALLY strive to draw a parallel between Willy the Wizard and Harry Potter--Right down to a sentence that has the word "honey" and the word "dukes" in it. These people are out of their minds. The writing is ATROCIOUS. I love it.

Hahaha, you lot have some interesting variations to Merlin's Beard! But honestly, that is just mental!

Wow... wow! This is some big news! I really don't think that Jo tried to copy it or anything, but that is a really big coincidence... I'm with all of you though, this is stupid. MUGGLECAST! I would love to hear their opinions!!!

Um, what the hell?

Oh, and another thing! A lot of things in Harry Potter could be related to other stories from the past, but you don't see The Lord of the Rings people sueing Jo or anything! STUPID.

LOL I read this and I almost died of laughter! "Willy

*rolls eyes* Honestly! I doubt if this author was alive he would bother making a fool of himself like this. His estate just want a but of publicity by the looks of things! If they want to sue JKR they may as well sue most of the fantasy books out there containing competitions and half breeds! It's not really that uncommon! I mean how can they draw a comparison?? It's not even based in a school like HP is!! Lmao it's just ridiculus!

Are they serious? So from now on, any story which contains a contest or a character entering a bathroom is considered a copyright infringment of Willy the Wizard? These people need to get real. If there was ever a case of someone trying to take a bite of JKR's pie, its this one. I hope JKR's people counter sue for damages and get heaps of money.

hahaha! dELusi0naL! *rolls eyes* that's all i cAn say..

This is absolutly RIDIKULOUS! These people are only looking for money. If Jo and the Harry Potter series weren't so rich and famous then this problem wouldn't have exsisted. And idk what made me laugh more, this whole lawsuit, or the title of the book, "The Adventures of Willy the Wizard-No 1 Livid Land". lmfao. Wow

http://www.willythewizard .com/index.html

wowwwww.. funny how they file this case NOW and nothing has been mentioned about it during the past 210984092384 years harry potter has been famous.

I like roasting marshmellows on a FIRE - the goblet of FIRE. HEY I should sue also! (how oathetic can he they get)

Thats kind of odd, i agree with alot of the comments right now, why all of a sudden would you pull the old, she stole/he stole, after its been released for more than 10 years now? Something says their just doing it for publicity, or they found an old manuscript, that was never published that has some of the same ideas, but this remains inconclusive. I think this will be funny to see as it unfolds.

i MUST read this book! i seriously need a laugh... his name is willy LOL willy the wizard i can see it now : "but i cant be a wizard, im willy, just willy!"

HAHAHAHAHA Thats hilarious!!! tonks654- That was Hilarious, made me laugh so hard when I read your commment. Those lawyers are Douchebags. HARRY POTTER FOREVER!!!!!! JK Rowling will crush you, crush you I say!!!!!!!!!

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". - Henry VI, Act IV, Scene II by William Shakespeare. I do believe The Bard has it right concerning the members of the legal profession, especially when it comes to frivolous lawsuits such as this. Still, since this case was filed in the UK, the rules are that the loser pays the cost for both sides. Does the estate of this long dead author have enough cash to pay out when they lose?

Hahaha, nice, Tonks!

Haha, lol. The nerve of some people. But this came out of nowhere, dontcha think?

I wonder if they also sued Anthony Browne for his book "Willy the Wizard." It's an amazing story about a chimpanzee who mixes magic and soccer. Wait a minute! Wizards and soccer! That's too close to Quidditch, Jo should sue! This whole thing is ridiculous!

I hope Jo's lawyers drag it out in court forever. She has deep pockets and maybe that will drain the estate that is suing...until she wins of course! Nonsense!!! Or as Ron would say: What in the name of Merlin's baggy y-fronts...?

I think we're at a point in literature history where ideas in one book can seem very similar to another, not because of plagiarism but due to the fact that most ideas concerning our modern world and the past have been explored in some way or other by now. There's very few original combinations of ideas left that do not bare some resemblance to another book, play, movie, etc. in some way. As long as there are enough unique details in Harry Potter to differentiate its greatness from crummy little pamphlets about other wizards and the like, the small similarities really don't matter and do not support a law suit.

First India copies( So they say) with their "Hari Putar" and now "Willy the Wizard"? wow. This is too much.

They know they're not going to win. It's just a publicity stunt. They hoped that they would get tons of media attention (which they have) and then everyone would go see what all the fuss was about and whether the two books are the same. It dispicable, but at the same time a freakin genius marketing ploy. I mean, how many times have you read on the back of a book "the next Harry Potter." These guys just took it one step further and cry plagarism so everyone assumes it's just like Harry Potter. I don't know whether to slap them or give them a marketing award. The things people do for money ...

That Willy website is hilarious! I have never in my life seen an author's website set up just to prove his / her work was plagarized. It just has a bunch of links to things that are "similar" to Harry Potter. Man, they just keep it coming. I don't even know what to say.

Slimy gits. Way to publicize their book. I'm NEVER reading it now.

RIDIKULUS! Someone put a boggart on those idiots rofl

Haha, well, this is one person they will not ensnare to read Willy so easily! They are a bunch of gits, but it is just a low way to publicize Willy! I bet the guy is having a big laugh right now. I hope nothing bad comes of this! I know these are bad times, but that is low. What is really bad is that the Willy Fight is defacing someone that younger kids look up to! I mean, I for one would not the book lover I am if I had to read Harry Potter, so many younger kids, kids of the new generation are learning to love books because of her and other authors, not only is this putting JKR in the bad light, but also other authors, people tend to stereotype certain people because of these things, if you get my meaning. Example of this: there are actors and actresses that are not, well, not very good role models, so some people stereotype actors and actresses as such.

To coin a potter phrase Ridikulus simply Ridikulus

Hahaha

I agree with you Padfoot777, I'm tired of people (esspeciallythemediacough cough) trying to give Jo a bad name. They've succeeded somewhat too, which is horrid. Some of my friends have made snide comments which they think are clever (they're not) about how she plagiarized the books, because of that last plagiarism suit. (you know, the one that Jo WON). This was due to the fact that the news of her winning the case and being cleared wasn't as highly publicized as the headlines "JK ROWLING GOES TO COURT FOR PLAGIARISM" were. It's all insane. I hope this doesn't further damage her reputation undeservedly. :(

why does everyone always try to play the victim against jkr? i can understand why there would be jealousy there, but come on people. this is this most famous book series in the world..the last book sold the most copies of any book ever (other than the bible)! can every one just accept that jrk is a genius and that she has endless writing ability to be able to come up with such an amazing world? do people really just think of ways to try to gain some of her fame because their lives are too pathetic to live?

LOL can they make it anymore obvious they're just trying to find things to scrape out money from rowling? Pathetic.

LOL can they make it anymore obvious they're just trying to find things to scrape out money from rowling? Pathetic.

LOL can they make it anymore obvious they're just trying to find things to scrape out money from rowling? Pathetic.

That's just pathetic.

LAME!! I'm guessing the author who passed away didn't leave them enough money so they decided to make some PATHETIC claim and get some from one of the richest authors in the world just because they're Grandfather's "PAMPHLET" is about a wizard who did something in a bathroom and ended up under a lake with half human creatures!! ARE U KIDDING ME?!! So What?! That's not plagarism. Plagarism is word for word! Just because there's an extrememly small hint of similarity (supposedly) doesn't make it plagarism. And who in the World is that author??! I've never even heard of him!