Rowling Rules

The spell has been cast: The publication of THE HARRY POTTER LEXICON was successfully blocked in yesterday's verdict, which found for J.K. Rowling and Warner Brothers against HP-lexicon.org and author Steven Vander Ark. (They also got $6,750 in statutory damages out of the ruling.) In retaliation, Vander Ark will... still be a fan:

“I have been a huge fan of the Harry Potter series and Ms. Rowling for 10 years; that’s not going to change,” Mr. Vander Ark said by telephone on Monday from his home in Brighton, England. “We had a disagreement about the definition of a particular book. It was a legal disagreement. I would rather that it wasn’t personal.”

I had completely forgotten that this case was going on, despite writing about it; I saw it on Throwing Things.