JK in court battle over Potter book

THE battle over the publication of a Harry Potter encyclopaedia “decimated” JK Rowling’s creativity and halted all work on a new novel, the author said yesterday.

Ms Rowling claimed the Harry Potter Lexicon, based on the internet fan site of the same name, “constitutes wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work”.

The Harry Potter author was giving evidence in a New York court, where she is suing RDR Books to stop publication of author Steve Vander Ark’s encyclopaedia.