My husband and I craft wands, we have been since 2004. When we first began, we were selling our wands on eBay. Warner Brothers pulled our products off the sellers list because they claimed exclusive rights on wands and the word "giant." We don't make wands for Harry Potter fans, but that's what they thought we were doing - stomping on their copyright. Copyright for what? A tool that has been around for centuries? An idea that has been around for just as long?

While their treatment of us was less than complimentary, and I did not agree with why they cancled our auctions, I have to side with Rowling, in this case. As an artist, this is her work, not someone else's, to distribute and take money from. These people are acting like authorities on her creation. They're not authorities, and I, as a HUGE fan of the HP Series, wouldn't buy anyone's book about HP, but Rowling's. If they want to be writers in their own right, they should make their own Universe, their own stories, and not feed off of someone else's brilliant work.