There are a lot of people who really, really, really love JK Rowling’s Harry Potter tales. In fairness, there’s millions of flies that like swarming around dung piles, so numbers don’t necessarily account for taste, right? That said, as one hecklerspray reader pointed out, “there’s no such thing as a bad story”. Unless you count the plethora of really bad stories out there.
Either way, Rowling has been wildly successful with Potter, watching her daft little books become gigantic blockbuster movies.
However, some claimed that JK Rowling (real name, Jamiroquai Rowling) had copied a load of ideas from a book that features Willy The Wizard. Sounds amazing doesn’t it? (No).
And so, the plagiarism case was started and everyone took it very seriously, despite the fact that all cases had to be presented with really stupid names in the mix, like Willy The Wizard and Dumbledore.
Did JK Rowling copy someone’s ideas? Well, an American judge doesn’t think so, dismissing the case that alleged Goblet of Fire was pilfered from author Adrian Jacobs and his The Adventures Of Willy The Wizard book.
A spokesman for her US publisher Scholastic said:
“The court’s swift dismissal supports our position that the case was completely without merit and that comparing Willy The Wizard to the Harry Potter series was absurd. Judge Scheindlin clearly agreed, stating, ‘The contrast between the total concept and feel of the works is so stark that any serious comparison of the two strains credulity’.
“Scholastic will continue to vigorously defend any such frivolous claims challenging the originality of Harry Potter and the brilliant imagination of its author, JK Rowling.”
Yeah! How does Rowling come up with the idea of someone having a superpower and being The Chosen One and all that? We’ve certainly never seen its like before in fiction or mythology!
She’s not completely off the hook yet. Rowling may still have to appear in a UK court after the High Court ruled in October the claim was “improbable” but still had a chance of success.
The hilariously named Mr Justice Kitchin refused applications by Rowling and her publishers, Bloomsbury, for an immediate judgement.
So yeah. That’s that then. What about that girl who is in the films and her new haircut? (etc)
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Erik says
wow, you must have no imagination at all. you obviously have not even read the fantastic potter series to call it rubbish. I mean, Stephen King, one of the greatest writers ever has praised it multiple times. JK Rowling is also one of the greatest writers as well. I also think you believe the series to be rubbish is because its immensely popular. you are probably a person that refuses to like something thats popular because you have a desire to be different and not conform. well guess what buddy, Harry Potter isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. so fuck off
Greg Simcock says
The Harry Potter story was created by me as story-boards for films to be made and picture-books. The Lord of the Rings was also one of my story-boards and that is why there have been comments to say they have similar sections in their story-line. There is one scene setting in T.L.o.t.R. which is similar to a scene setting in the Lion King too… as I designed it to be so! Willy the wizard was a concept that was formed from a set of drawings that were left over from my forming the Harry Potter stories from my drawings. I drew often and formed the stories for the titles I had created for the series of Harry Potter stories and among the unneeded drawings I had placed a drawing of my, well let’s say it was a train I drew of my personal member! I had to disguise it so as to hide its appearance but I wanted to remember what I used as a model for the wizards train, and as it was derived from a drawing of my male member I named my drawing “Willy The Wizard”! The Wizard was me! I never thought my penis would travel around the world. I had known of the claim of plagiarism against Jo Rowling by the Estate of Adrian Jacobs but it was not long ago that I found an image of the booklet cover of Willy the Wizard on the Internet when I laughed when I realized it was a drawing I had made of my member. I wonder what the book would have been called if I had named the story as Dick Tracey? I guess the story would have been pulled from the sales rack in much the same way that my willy was pulled while the legal wrangle went-on for years. All the while causing me to not get involved in it. Now that its over I am making my point present and known that I created the Harry Potter stories and the stories work papers and drawings got stolen, flew to England/Scotland and Willy the Wizard appeared late, as usual! Then my Wang was shown about the place in its dressed-up manor (with windows and funny characters riding in it, all to everybody’s amusement and wondering why the story was named “Willy The Wizard”). Well, now you know! The story was asked about by a visiting friend, Alan Page, and so he was told the story of Willy The Wizard was about a wizard on a train.
The Harry Potter stories have been a conspiracy that has denied me of my rights to the stories in that series ever since the first stories publication by Jo Rowling. Rowling did not create the Harry Potter stories. The story was formed over many years by me and when I left the Australian Army I had no job, but while I had a pension I was able to write and draw the story-boards for my wizard stories tentatively while I was not too stressed from the ordeal that I found myself in after I noticed the first film in the series was released. I almost lost my will to live, and that is very difficult for me to acknowledge, but I got the will to fight the mental torment and began to seek out answers as to what had happened to my thousands of drawings for my inventions, product designs, and stories. I am Harry and the Philosopher in my story and I saw something good had become of it, but it did not resolve the matter of plagiarism of what was my stories of a wizard boy who goes to a wizard school to get a good education. If you want to know more of the facts about the stories origin then go to; mylord.amplify.com or to find information on how Willy the Wizard was formed go to; gregsimcock.amplify.com.
Otherwise go to artifacts.yolasite.com. The information on those sires is true. You might find the poem, titled; “The Lier Bird” on jkrawling.tumblr.com of interest. It is a short story of facts told as a poem.
My name is Gregory Ronald Simcock,
Happy Day’s,
author; J. K. Rawling
Gregory Simcock Nuts says
This dude is nuts.
Jon says
Harry potter really is shite! Getting ideas from TOlkein and CSS Lewis is a bloody disgrace.