That trial

[Geoff Bannister]

Geoff:

Interestingly, I was in a branch of W.H.Smiths this 
morning and the front page of the Daily Telegraph 
caught my eye, because there was a picture of JKR 
on the front page. 

I took a surreptitious peek at the inside page 
mentioned and found the following:

"In an exchange with a witness, Judge Robert 
Patterson Jr admitted that he was not a Harry 
Potter fan.
	
Miss Rowling is calling for authors' rights to 
be protected. His only experience of reading one 
of the books was during a visit by his grandchildren 
when he read them half of Harry Potter and the 
Sorcerer's Stone**, the first in the series. 

He found it hard to follow Rowling's "magical world", 
he said, as it was filled with strange names and words 
that would be gibberish in any other context. 

"I found it extremely complex," he said - even more 
so than the novels of Dickens that his own father 
read to him as a child.
 
Judge Patterson suggested there was genuine worth in 
an encyclopaedia like The Harry Potter Lexicon, 
written by Steven Vander Ark, that Rowling is 
attempting to block by claiming that it breaches 
her copyright."

**UK purists substitute Prilosopher's Stone.
:-)

Hmm. That sounds interesting.