 Kitty Momma Rachel's Brain Twin
You know, this is pretty disappointing. I frequently reference the Lexicon and I even met Steve last year at the Sonorus convention in Lancaster CA, and he seemed to be a pretty decent and nice guy but this whole thing just totally and blatantly screams greed/get rich quick, because A) if anyone wants to reference facts they can always go to the nearest computer and look it up as computers are everywhere nowadays and books in that regard are steadily becoming outdated (e.g. general dictionaries and encyclopedias because they are now online and are free to use, which I think kind of deflates necessity of a printed version of a website that is already 'out there' and free to reference.) and B) anything and everything to do with the world of Harry Potter belongs to JKR and no one else, and as such no one should attempt to assume any rights to or make motions to publish/make money off of anything about it without her permission.
In any case, I think that if she has directly requested for Vander Ark to back off that he should respect her wishes because she was after all thinking about creating her own version of the Harry Potter encyclopedia, which would undoubtedly be more accurate than that of what any fan could achieve, and if she did his wouldn’t matter in the long or short run because who would chose a fan's version over the creator's/author's version? On that note, I think that Seteve should more or less regard Rowling’s decision to deny him to publish his encyclopedia as a soft of, if perhaps unintentional, favor because publishing a book is most certainly not cheap and in the event she was to publish her own, fans would flock that way and he would most likely be left in financial debt over the whole affair.
P.S. Sorry for the long-windedness, wasn't meaning to be so breezy lol. 
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