Harry Potter Storylines Are Gibberish, Judge Tells Rowling


	Harry Potter Storylines Are Gibberish, Judge Tells Rowling

Steve McGookin

4-18-2008 8:50 AM

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4-18-2008 10:11 AM

Hana Alberts

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS JUDGE?

4-18-2008 10:26 AM

ratilfar

I think he never heard of suspension of disbelief.

4-18-2008 3:26 PM

dulios

I bet his grandchildren got it!

4-19-2008 12:43 AM

tanyamm

He lacks imagination.

4-28-2008 10:45 AM

buddhistbabe8

duh a guide would be helpful, but jkr should write it herself!

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J. K. Rowling heard her work described as “gibberish” by a US judge yesterday
at the end of a three-day trial into an unauthorised encyclopaedia of her
Harry Potter novels.
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Rowling has asked the federal court in New York to block publication of The
Harry Potter Lexicon, a guide to the characters, places and spells in her
novels, written by Steven Vander Ark, 50, a former school librarian.
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District Judge Robert Patterson Jr said that he had read the first half of the
first Harry Potter novel to his grandchildren, but found the “magical world
hard to follow, filled with strange names and words that would be gibberish
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“I found it extremely complex,” he said, suggesting that a reference guide
might be useful.
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