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J.K. Gives a Harry Eyeball
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Updated: 12:40 PM ET Apr 19, 2008

What is it about becoming superrich that makes people so greedy—and mean? Last week Harry Potter creator (and gazillionaire) J. K. Rowling was in court trying to stop a former middle-school librarian named Steven Vander Ark from publishing a book called "The Harry Potter Lexicon." He sees it as both a guide and a tribute to the wonderful world of Potter. She thinks it's a rip-off, and a shoddy one at that. "I think there are funny things in there," Rowling told the judge, "and I wrote them." It was all enough to make a grown man cry, and Vander Ark did, on the stand. "It's been difficult," he said, "because there has been a lot of criticism, obviously, and that was never the intention." For shame, J.K. You give all the rest of us Muggles a bad name.

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