JK Rowling Wrongly Claims Harry Potter

JK Rowling -- author of the Harry Potter books -- is trying to quash competition and publication of analysis in the form of an encyclopedia dedicated to divining meaning in the series.

Rowling feels Potter belongs to her and not the world. She is wrong.

We argue the Potter phenomenon has become more than its pages in the hand and greater than its volumes in print.

Potter is now part of the cultural meme of the world and Rowling should encourage more books and articles, not less, to help provide even more enlightenment to the literacy and the learning of her series fans. Her duty is to encourage conversation, not stamp it out with legal action.

When Rowling cries in court and tries to kill the publication of analytical Potter books instead of championing the work in the marketplace, she not only wounds her brand, but she lessens her greatness as an author in the mistaken and selfish effort to control the minutiae of a culture of believing she invented, but beautifully, no longer owns.