The richest woman in Britain won a claim that a fan set to churn out a "Harry Potter" Lexicon would cause her "irrevocable harm as a writer." The book's production has now halted and was being released by Michigan-based RDR Books (because Michigan needs even more money taken away from it right now). J.K. apparently took personal offense to the work saying that the lexicon was "wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work." And you thought copying your Comparative Lit paper was bad.

Apparently large passages of the planned lexicon were pretty much cut and pasted from Rowling's books, and anything new that would have been written would have been little more than fan fiction.  Maybe it's not such a bad idea that this never made it to print. I personally don't really give a shit about the life and times of Dedalus Diggle.

Good news for fans is that Rowling is still planning on releaseing short story collection "Tales of the Beetle Bard" this December which should tide over all your wizardly cravings until the sixth film, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is relased in July. If you're really desperate, I guess you can go see Daniel Radcliffe in Equus if that does it for you.