on Rowling Claims Victory at 15:01 09/08/2008

I think this ruling sucks. JKR approved and lauded the site, but it’s info became harmful only after it was supposed to be published as a book. This should be no skin off JKR’s back, as the book she will/would write will sell BIG no matter the unofficial guides written before (and the proceeds would go to charity, blah blah). Also, it seems somewhat petty to turn on someone whose work she herself has admitted to use as search material for her own work (as in checking timelines etc). There already are a lot of unofficial Harry Potter related books, so what made this different? There is also ton of wizard rock bands that base their whole material of work on her characters, and they are allowed to SELL their albums. JKR is only mad because she knows this would have sold a lot. Some consistency about this would have been nice.