Rowling Testifies Against Lexicon Author

It was her first time testifying in a courtroom, J. K. Rowling said on Monday, and she was a bit nervous.

But she had flown to New York from her Edinburgh home for the occasion, she testified, because she felt so strongly about someone else turning 17 years of her labor on the Harry Potter series into an encyclopedia.
It has been so difficult, she said, that her normal writing life has been all but paralyzed by “stress and heartache.”
“It has really decimated the demands of my creative work for the last month,” she testified, at least once stoically holding back tears as she talked about the Potter books as if they were her children.
“You lose the threads, you worry if you’ll ever be able to pick them up again,” she said.
Ms. Rowling and Warner Brothers Entertainment, which produces the Harry Potter films, are suing RDR Books, a small Michigan publisher, to stop the publication of Steven Vander Ark’s “Harry Potter Lexicon,” an encyclopedia based on Mr. Vander Ark’s popular Web site of the same name.

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