Author JK Rowling has won her legal battle in a New York court to get an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopaedia banned from publication.
Judge Robert Patterson said in a ruling Ms Rowling, 43, had proven Steven Vander Ark's Harry Potter Lexicon would cause her irreparable harm as a writer.
Ms Rowling sued Michigan Potter fairytales to be published ...
New priorities ...
Potter 'prequel' sold at auction ... based publishers RDR Books last year to stop publication of Mr Vander Ark's book.
He wrote the book after running a popular Potter fansite.
'Wholesale theft'
The book had been originally due for publication on 28 November 2007, but legal proceedings prevented it from being released.
Ms Rowling had originally supported the Lexicon website, but she said there was a difference between fans publishing information for free on the internet, and selling it in the form of a book.
In April she gave evidence in court and said the encyclopaedia amounted to "wholesale theft".
The author has always denied the case was about money.
She had been planning to write her own definitive encyclopaedia, the proceeds of which she had intended to donate to charity.
However, she told the court in April she is not sure if she has "the will or the heart" to do it after all.
At the time RDR Books argued that it is little different than any other novel reference guide and should be allowed to go to press without interference.
(BBC)
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