Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2

I’m one of those people who didn’t read the Harry Potter books, but I have enjoyed the movies over the years.  Well, except for those three or four in the middle that didn’t seem to make much sense or advance the plot or even tell an interesting story.  But they were still fun to watch. I always thought that Harry was going to turn out to BE The Dark Lord.  That would have been a great twist, eh? It’s hard not to spill all the secrets and mention in passing that Luke is Darth Vader’s son, that the Maltese Falcon is…

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JK Rowling Wins Copyright Case

“While the Lexicon, in its current state, is not a fair use of the Harry Potter works, reference works that share the Lexicon’s purpose of aiding readers of literature generally should be encouraged rather than stifled.”-Judge Patterson The Judge agreed with JK Rowling that having someone else publish a Harry Potter lexicon would be bad for Ms Rowling, that it would cause her irreparable harm as a writer. The Lexicon is basically putting a website into print form. JK Rowling didn’t object to a site that pointed fans to her works but she was not too keen on someone else…

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J.K. Rowling and The Harry Potter Lexicon

“I really don’t want to cry because I’m British, you know,” J.K. Rowling said. “You know, these books, they saved me, not just in the very obvious material sense, although they did do that. … I would have to say that there was a time when they saved my sanity.” J.K. Rowling, famous for stealing every fantasy idea ever written and plopping it down in a new Harry Potter book is suing a fan of Harry Potter to keep him from publishing a book about Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling sued Michigan-based RDR Books to stop publication of Steven Vander Ark’s…

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Harry Potter and the Torrent of Bits

Google Results 1 – 10 of about 97,100 for harry potter and the deathly hallows torrent Maybe it is just me, but the very idea of wading through one of these eight hundred page behemoths in ebook form gives me a headache. But then, I am not a Harry Potter maniac, so maybe squinting at a flickering screen to find out what finally happens to the little wizard with the lighting bolt on his forehead is worth it. Still, it is only a few days until the legal release, so does this torrent really matter much? Maybe, maybe not.I watched…

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