By Porcelain_Doll
Willy the Wizard?
With the much anticipated next installment, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, coming out in just one short month from now, the news feeds are bursting with pre-movie excitement as new trailers, press conferences, and accessories are released. Video games, movie posters, and it seems like trillions of interviews with the cast members are bogging down all of the local Harry Potter websites, but upon closer look, there’s a scandal ready to dump water all over the thrilled fire of the new movie being revealed.
On June 15th, it was disclosed that the estate of Adrian Jacob’s is suing J.K. Rowling and her Harry Potter series for infringement on a small, insignificant booklet with thirty-six pages about “Willy the Wizard” that was written a decade before the Harry Potter series came out. Specifically, they are stating that the story-line of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is stolen from Jacob’s booklet, and that the idea of a wizarding tournaments with daunting tasks dealing with fantastical creatures and half-human, half-animals crossbreeds, along with the concept of wizards riding on trains were thieved.
You can all stop holding your breath, though. Representatives of Bloomsbury Publishing have already come out with a statement regarding the claims saying they are “without merit, and will be defended vigorously. The allegations of plagiarism made today by the Estate of Adrian Jacobs are unfounded, unsubstantiated, and untrue.”
They also went on to discuss the claims from them already brought up and shot down back in 2004, and revealed that the estate was unable to identify any text in the HP books that was copied from Jacobs’ and that the booklet didn’t actually revolved around a wizarding school, nor was “Willy” a young wizard.
So basically, they’re out of their minds and want money. So you can now resume your excited madness and incessant parties over the upcoming movie, because it appears that J.K.’s publishing team has it all covered. Not that these people were really all too much a threat in the first place.