Court blocks Harry Potter ‘parody’

HARRY POTTER author JK Rowling won a court battle yesterday to block the Dutch publication of a Russian novel about a girl wizard called Tanya Grotter, after she argued that it copied one of her bestsellers.

Rowling asked an Amsterdam court to stop the publication of the first western edition of The Magic Double Bass, by Dmitry Yemets.

Her lawyer says the work copies her hit book Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone.