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kamion (kamion) wrote,
@ 2008-04-26 02:31:00

TIMETABLE
In one on my responses at elanora's post I said I needed a Timetable about the whole JKR versus RDR case. Not to proove something, but just because I realised how soddy plain memory can be.
In retrospect it looks as if the decision of JK Rowling to write a Harry Potter encyclopedia is as certain as the white cliffs of Dover. But I had a hell of a time tracing back the moment she actually made that statement. To be honest after digging through the news archives of The Leaky Cauldron and of MuggleNet I did not find such a clearcut statement. It's only after the case started running there is a moment I could conclude for ceratin JKR is intending to write an encyclopedia and that is during the Pottercast intervieuw of december 18.
There were a few entries headed with "News on the Encyclopedia", but when reading the source of that news linked to it was still a lot of "might be" and "maybe" and "someday". Searching between july 21 and oktober 31, the day the lawsuit against RDR was filed I neither could find an announchment of RDR intending to publish the Lexicon, but from the entries at TLC and Mugglenet at okt 31 it can be concluded that this was publicly known already.

So I missed a few spots.

I like the timetable complete, so any help pointing out entries on this is welcome.

Below the cut a compilation of entries, including the rumors on writing and the news of the suits filed between the release of Deathly Hallows and filing of the RDR suit.

I dunno but 3 courtcases in 102 days on various subjects, I am tempted to speak of
'Courtroom Jo' in stead of JK Rowling.

Timetable the Rowling Encyclopedia

July 20, 2007
That sounds ominously final. So have we really seen the last of the staff and students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
"Because the world is so big, there would be room to do other stuff," Rowling says carefully. "I am not planning to do that, but I'm not going to say I'm never going to do it."
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2007-07-19-rowling-potter_N.htm
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july 24, 2007 Today show
ROWLING: Well, it would be someone new. McGonagle was really getting on a bit. So someone completely new. But if I ever do the encyclopedia, I'm promising I will give details.
http://time-blog.com/nerd_world/2007/07/rowling_speaks.html
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july 24, 2007 Today show
In her first tell-all interview since the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” J.K. Rowling told TODAY’s Meredith Vieira she “probably will” publish a Potter encyclopedia, promising many more details about her beloved characters and the fate of the wizarding world beyond the few clues provided in the seventh book’s epilogue.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/19935372/
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july 26, 2007 Today Show
Rowling said she may eventually reveal more details in a Harry Potter encyclopedia, but even then, it will never be enough to satisfy the most ardent of her fans.
“I’m dealing with a level of obsession in some of my fans that will not rest until they know the middle names of Harry’s great-great-grandparents,” she said. Not that she’s discouraging the Potter devotion!
“I love it,” she said. “I’m all for that.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/
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August 7, 2007
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has lost a High Court action seeking to ban the publication of a picture of her son.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6935012.stm
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august 18, 2007
rumors Rowlings is writing on a detective novel
LONDON: Pen and notebook in hand in Edinburgh cafes, author J.K. Rowling has been spotted working on her latest work: a detective novel, a British newspaper reported Saturday
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/18/arts/EU-A-E-BKS-Britain-Rowling.php
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august 26, 2007
Musical rumor:
J.K. ROWLING is expected to write a special Harry Potter book in aid of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day in 2009. She did spin-off books for Comic Relief in 2001, which raised £22million
http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2007/08/26/harry-potter-the-musical-98487-19689251/
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oktober 11, 2007
J.K. Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series, is suing a community group in India for breach of copyright for recreating Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for a religious festival, group members said on Thursday.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUKDEL25838420071011
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oktober 15, Open book tour 1
JKR has not yet started on the promised Hogwarts Encyclopedia. When asked about this highly anticipated possible book,
Rowling simply laughed. “It’s not coming along,” she said, “and I haven’t started writing it. I never said it was the next thing I’d do.”
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/15/j-k-rowling-talks-hogwarts-encyclopedia-and-more

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oktober 31, the lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A book billed as an unofficial encyclopedic companion to the "Harry Potter" series infringes copyright and attempts to cash in on the successful brand, author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. said when they filed a lawsuit on Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSN3133972420071031

18 december 2007
Podcast intervieuw

first time the term The scottish book is used and the first clear statement she wants to write an encyclopedia
http://pottercast.the-leaky-cauldron.org/jkrowling

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	kabal42 2008-04-26 08:31 pm UTC (link)
	This is a great resource you've put together. I know of some meta-people here on IJ who're working to gather a lot of links about the case. Can I perhaps link them to this entry? (Reply to this) (Thread)

kamion
2008-04-26 09:02 pm UTC (link)

link them through, no opjection what so ever.
At the moment I am struggling with the court papers, wasting a perfect sunny saturday

and the cross on Roger Rapoport of RDR gave me some new data.
such a when he approuched Steve and when the contract was signed and the such.
I am not sure how to incorperate those, because my prime intention was to timetable the public access to the initiatives of Lexicon Steve and Courtroom Jo.
To be honest those dates made the affair even more sickening.

What would you say when I mentioned ad random, that I intented to write a story about the grandchildren of Harry and Draco, someday between now and the day I retire.
and in the mean time, still haven produced any thing, attack anyone who thinks of writing about the same not yet defined characters?

You would probably call me a complete idiot not in touch with the reality.
And I would be the first to agree.

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	kabal42 2008-04-26 10:30 pm UTC (link)
	Cool :-) Just did. You can find the list of things they're putting together over here: http://asylums.insanejournal.com/metametameta/3844.html nods It's interesting stuff in itself, yes. When that happened. I'd say you were nuts to want to write about grandkids ;-) But yeah, I do see your point. (Reply to this) (Parent)