Author suing ‘Harry Potter’ creator has book reissued. Nancy Stouffer claims J.K. Rowling plagiarized her because a series of her children’s books in the mid-’80’s used the term muggles, had a character named “Potter” and a “Keeper of the Gardens” (the Harry Potter books have a “Keeper of the Keys”). Now several of her out-of-print books will be re-released over the next year. Sounds like they might make enjoyable reading with my children, but it also sounds like there are no more than superficial similarities with Rowling’s work. Stouffer admittedly created her characters with a view toward licensing them and probably hoped to sell the film rights before her publisher went bankrupt. She seems to have waited for Rowlings’ movie deal to add Warner Bros.’ deeper pockets to her infringement suit. My biggest question: will the author’s photo on the back of the dustjacket show the dollar signs in her eyes? Nando Times

In other Harry Potter news, Rowling just put out two little $3.99 paperback “Hogwarts textbooks” — Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Quidditch Through the Ages — whose proceeds will benefit the British social charity Comic Relief. My son has his nose buried in the former this weekend, since we bought it.