Do you agree with this judge?

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J. K. Rowling heard her work described as "gibberish" by a US judge yesterday at the end of a three-day trial into an unauthorised encyclopaedia of her Harry Potter novels.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3768307.ece
Looking again, I find the article's headline somewhat misleading, considering the context. It made it sound like he was slating Rowling when he wasn't...
 
Well if you read what the judge said and ignore the headline (which was taken out of context) then yes I do.

However, my ten year old grand daughter would disagree and tell you that it is not at all complicated, and she has read all of the books.

The concept of the books is not only very clever, it is also very simple.

Taking English Public School life and putting it in the setting of a Witch / Wizard school, a situation that an American may not understand.

I do hope that the writer of the Lexicon emerges as the victor in this case, not least because Rowling herself has admitted that she used his on-line site for reference when she could not remember details that she had in fact written.
 
It was gibberish to him as you have to have a creative mind to understand J.K. Rowling. He is just a judge, what would he know!!! lol :-))) Maybe they find life in general too complex too, which is why they make incredible decisions, which go against the majority of public opinion... It seems judges can't communicate with fiction either... :-) But I don't think it was aimed at the writer, more himself and his misguided belief that we are all unable to read between the lines!
 
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