J.K. Rowling’s Emotional Testimony in Court Today

J.K. Rowling testified in a New York court today and she was nearly moved to tears as she described how much Harry Potter and the books means to her.

Rowling testified as a aftereffect of a joint lawsuit brought by her estate and Warner Brothers (the films’ producers) against RDR Books to stop the publication of “The Harry Potter Lexicon,” a reference book culled from thousands of pages of info posted on HP-Lexicon.org.



“I really don’t want to cry, considering I’m British. … These characters meant so much to me, and continue to mean so much to me, by such a distant period of instance,” Rowling was quoted as saying under oath. “It’s very difficult for someone who is not a writer to understand. The closest I can come is to say to someone: ‘How do you feel about your child?’ ”


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“I believe that book constitutes wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard

work. It adds little whether anything by way of commentary … and it debases what I worked so hard to create,” she said in court.
whether the judge allows for the “Lexicon” to be published, Rowling thinks it will have longstanding effects on the relationship amidst authors and their biggest World Wide Web fans.



“If RDR’s position is accepted, it will undoubtedly have a significant, negative impact on the freedoms enjoyed by genuine fans on the Net,” she wrote in a pretrial statement to the court. “Authors everywhere will be forced to protect their creations much more rigorously.”

The trial is expected to end that week, but it may awhile until a verdict is reached. It’s an crucial case that publishers and authors are watching carefully.



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