J K Rowling and Warner Bros. have filed a lawsuit in the US to try to block the publication of an 'unofficial encyclopedic companion to the Harry Potter series'. The 400-page book, The Harry Potter Lexicon by Potter fansite webmaster Steve Vander Ark, was to be released by RDR Books on 28 November.
Rowling said even though she loved fan sites, she hoped to write 'the definitive Harry Potter encyclopedia, which will include all the material that never made it into the novels' and donate the proceeds to charity. 'I cannot, therefore, approve of "companion books" or "encyclopedias" that seek to pre-empt my definitive Potter reference book for their authors' own personal gain,' she said.
