JK Rowling

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.

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:

Somewhere it must be written that with every new Harry Potter book release, the population must rush out and buy said tome (queuing up for bonus points, of course) and then attempt to read all six hundred and something pages in about twenty minutes.

Being the independently minded, well-balanced individual that I am, I bought my copy on the Saturday morning (in fairness, I didn't queue) and proceeded to read it. But because I'm a big boy with grown up responsibilities, I finished reading The Deathly Hallows on Monday evening.