[HPforGrownups] Re: Nancy Stouffer vs. J.K. Rowling

[Doreen]

No: HPFGUIDX 14535





There are quite a few things on her list which betray that Stouffer 
does not really understand what the HP books are talking about-- and 
the stone is a classic example.

A "worry stone", on the other hand, is an item which Greek ladies 
carry around in their pockets and rub their fingers over to sooth 
anxieties and to help them think. It is, I think, also a popular 
object in other cultures-- but it is NOT the Philosopher's Stone; it 
has nothing to do with the Elixer of Life; it is not an item in the 
Harry Potter universe; nor is it *AHEM* an invention of Stouffer's. 
For Stouffer to list this as a "similarity" is REALLY desperately 
stretching things, and for her to claim invention of even HER "worry 
stone" is groundless.
Jeez, I would love to swat this mosquito once and for all! ick!
--Suzanne

What, then, is Ms. Stouffer going to do about:

The Worry Stone 
by Marianna Dengler, Sibyl Graber Gerig(Illustrator) (Hardcover - September 1996) 

Is she/did she sue Ms. Dengler, also?

Doreen







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