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Writer saves fan from payout

Author JK Rowling has stepped in to save a 16-year-old from prosecution after he admitted to publishing a translation of her latest Harry Potter book on the internet.

The unnamed French boy reportedly posted his work online two months before the official publication of the French version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Disclosures obtained by a British newspaper reveal he was tracked down to his bedroom in Aix-en-Provence after publishers of the book alerted the police.

But he was saved a massive damages claim by Rowling because he said he published the translation, which was near professional standards, not for financial gain .

A police spokesman told The Daily Mail: “We believed him when he said he had done it only for the millions of impatient Harry Potter fans in France waiting for the book to appear in French.”

Aug 16, 2007
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