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  JK wins 'Tanya Grotter' court case
Updated 03 April 2003, 16.33

A copy of Tanya Grotter and Her Magical Double Bass
Tanya Grotter and Her Magical Double Bass
JK Rowling has won her court case to stop a Harry Potter-like book from being published.

She's managed to stop the Russian book about a girl wizard called Tanya Grotter because she says it copies her best-selling novels.

The book, called The Magic Double Bass by Dmitry Yemets, is all about Tanya Grotter and her days at a witch school called Abracadabra.

Evil force

She's an orphan, has a strange mark on her face and has magical powers.

Harry and Tanya both have scars and magical powers
Tanya also battles with an evil force which is so terrible it cannot be named. Sound familiar?

Judges at a court in Amsterdam agreed with JK that it was too similar to Harry Potter and shouldn't be published there.

The decision means 7,000 copies of the book will now be stopped.

Although Byblos, the Dutch publishers of the book, do have the right to appeal the decision.

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