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The Harry Potter author Joanne Rowling was crying into her huge pile of cash recently when she discovered that a fan was planning to release a Harry Potter Lexicon.

The bastard. Imagine someone going out and chronicling the Harry Potter legend for the benefit of the fans, and saving Rowling the bother.

Now, there's two ways of looking at this:

1. Joanne Rowling is a complete control freak and wants to write the encyclopedia herself. Fair enough. Or...
2. She's slightly more preoccupied about someone else making money out of her creation.

What you might not know is that the proposed Harry Potter Lexicon is based on a website which Rowling herself has praised. Let's face it, fan sites help spread the word and allow enthusiasts to gather together and gossip and explode the myth.

Let's get the formal introductions out of the way now. I'm Deep Thought. No, not that computer in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, but I like to question things nonetheless.

Hopefully it doesn't take me quite as long to reach conclusions as my science-fictional namesake.

Here on PopOpinions, I'll be openly pondering everything from celebrity culture to politics, religion and poodles. I'll be rethinking conventional views on relationships and asking people to look at whether what society dictates is necessarily correct. That's what PopOpinions is all about.

For those of you who've read Kate Mosse's preceding novel, Labyrinth, Sepulchre follows the same narrative style and relies upon a fairly similar storytelling technique: events from the past are inextricably bound to events in the present day and our present day heroine becomes enthralled with her historical link and is compelled to try to right the wrongs of the bygone era.

It's a rare occasion when a movie reduces me to tears, but Big Fish has the ability to reduce me to a blubbering heap every time.

Big Fish tells the life story of Edward Bloom through a series of flashbacks and retrospectives. As Edward nears the end of his life, his estranged son comes home and their tensions resume as it becomes clear Edward has invented many of the childhood stories he told his son William.

Any time you encounter a Will Smith movie, he's valiantly fighting to save the world from something. In The Pursuit Of Happyness, it's different. He's valiantly fighting to save himself.

Movies featuring Will Smith usually pit him as an energetic, wise cracking hero amid a bunch of aliens and special effects. But perhaps it is because of - or in spite of - this pedigree that Smith manages to surprise us with a remarkably low-key and touching performance as a down on his luck single father trying to make ends meet for his family.

You know, I've always considered Harry Potter as a bit of a wimp. With the glasses and always being bailed out by someone else or accidentally worming his way out a situation.

But what if we beefed Harry Potter up a little bit, perhaps got someone a bit tougher to play the role. It'd be worth it just for what would ultimately become the new Potter's catchphrase:

I picked this book up for the missus just before Christmas, and decided to give it a quick flick through before I wrapped it. Within half-an-hour I’d read it cover to cover,

The tagline to Never Hit A Jellyfish With A Spade is “How to Survive Life’s Smaller Challenges”, and that’s the essence of this book. A series of short articles lifted from Browning’s Guardian column, each focuses on a micro-topic from everyday life: How to…. eat biscuits, mow the lawn, read a Sunday paper.

If you don’t have the stamina for a book review right now, scroll down to the question at the bottom for an interesting ethical debate!

The last time I read a Dean Koontz novel, he was specifically a writer of horror stories. That was a fair few years ago to say the least, and in the meantime Koontz seems to have transcended the pure horror genre. These days, he seems to be writing in the more modern, more lucrative thriller style.

My cynicism (for Koontz’s motives) aside, the man has not lost his touch. Velocity is a fast-paced crime thriller, but manages to raise some interesting moral and ethical questions at the same time.

On the cover of On Second Thoughts… is a drawing of King Arthur and his knights sitting at a square table as one of the group asks if anyone else thinks the Feng Shui is all wrong.