this is a situation she probably never wanted to be in but Harry Potter creator JK Rowling had to defend her Harry Potter against what she calls a wholesale theft of nearly 20 years of work the author sued michigan-based audiobooks last year to prevent the publication of a Harry Potter lexicon saying it was copyright infringement after the hearing at New York District Court on Monday Rowling's spoke about her distaste of the case that gives me no pleasure to take legal action but I'm here today because I feel very strongly about it if an issue that affects many more people than just me if books that plagiarize other works unlimited offers fans and readers stand to lose there are lots of books in many languages that comment on or criticize Harry Potter and I'm delighted about that but the book in this case is different it provides no analysis and virtually no commentary it takes far too much and it gives far too little in fact the mother of Harry Ron and Hermione has already started on her own encyclopedia but says it'll take more time the trial comes eight months after rolling published her final book of the fantasy Saga Harry Potter books still Pauline records sums more than 400 million copies have been sold and the films have made almost four and a half billion u.s. dollars at the box office