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BYRON CENTER, Mich., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- British author J.K. Rowling is suing a Michigan man to prevent him from publishing an authoritative guide to her best-selling Harry Potter series.
Steve Vander Ark of Byron Center, Mich., created the Harry Potter Lexicon – a guide to the fantasy series – in 2000 as part of a side project while teaching at Byron Center Christian School.
"I don't play golf. I don't watch a lot of TV," he said. "This is my hobby."
J.K. Rowling and the producer of the Harry Potter movies, Warner Bros., are suing Vander Ark in federal court to prevent a small publishing company from compiling Vander Ark's Web site into a book, the Detroit Free Press reported Sunday.
Rowling and Warner Bros said Vander Ark's work "regurgitates … J.K. Rowling's own material" for profit and curtails Rowling's plans to "produce her own companion book to the Harry Potter she created."
"If I had known she would object, I never would have written the book," Vander Ark said.
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