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Jordan Has JK Rowling In Her Sights

8:59AM Clem Bastow | Jordan (aka Katie Price) has really been on the up-and-up lately. First she began her transformation to relatively normal-looking with a series of breast reductions (from “ludicrous” to merely “hilarious” size) and an apparent nose job, then she started show-jumping (to the dismay of the snobby polo/pony set), now literary success has been ticked off the glamour princess’ to-do list. Is there anything the woman can’t do? The answer is, clearly, no! Busty model Jordan is working her magic on the publishing world with her books selling faster than JK Rowling’s. More »

Harry Potter Brings Out The Emo In Librarians

9:31AM Jess McGuire | We were quite shocked when we read this article yesterday. A Harry Potter fan who wants to publish an encyclopedic guide to the wildly popular fantasy novels broke down and cried on the witness stand as he faced off in federal court against his idol JK Rowling. The British author sued Steven Vander Ark’s publisher RDR Books last year, claiming that their Harry Potter Lexicon – based on Vander Ark’s fan website – infringed on her copyright. Vander Ark wiped away tears when he was asked to reflect on what the case has done to his relationship with the community of Harry Potter fans. The former middle school librarian, who fell in love with the books in the late 1990s and has devoted years to studying them and indexing their content online, could barely speak. “It’s been … it’s been,” he stammered, choking on his words. “It’s been difficult because there has been a lot of criticism, obviously, and that was never the intention. … This has been an important part of my life for the last nine years or so.” Let us clarify – we weren’t shocked that someone would attempt to jump on the Harry Potter money juggernaut, good intentions or not, but rather by the photo and caption accompanying the story. Wow, an adult Harry Potter fanatic who cries like Prince Frederik after the birth of an heir managed to land himself an “unidentified woman”? Good for you, sir! May all your children find themselves in Gryffindor, or something! More »

J.K. Rowling Explains Why Uncle Dumbledore Never Got Married

6:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Just in case you forgot to check The Leaky Cauldron over the weekend, J.K. Rowling dropped a bomb before a crowd of young Potterites who had won an audience with the Harry Potter author at Carnegie Hall on Friday. EW.com was there: Responding to a question from a child about Dumbledore’s love life, Rowling hesitated and then revealed, “I always saw Dumbledore as gay.” Filling in a few more details, she said, “Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald…. Don’t forget, falling in love can blind us.” More »

JK Rowling Already Plotting Ways To Keep The Bucks Rolling In

10:04AM Busty St Clair | Now that JK Rowling’s last Harry Potter books is out, the world’s richest author is already planning ways to keep the money coming in. Apparently she’s planning to pen an encyclopedia about the seven Harry Potter books and the movie franchise. The British author has just released the seventh and final Potter book, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, but she plans to wrap up the series with an A to Z account of all things Potter. She says, “There’s always been bits that I knew about characters that didn’t make the final cuts because they weren’t that relevant.” After that, we can expect a series of six books that details the slightly less exciting things that happened in between the time periods covered in each of the original seven books, plus a Harry Potter biography and then a tell-all memoir from Hermione, which will be followed by a Hermione spin-off series. More »