In a copyright case that really has very little to do with education (the defendant was a former school librarian that is wanting to make a book about Harry Potter that J.K. Rowling wants to block) I found this interesting ...
District Judge Robert Patterson Jr said that he had read the first half of the
first Harry Potter novel to his grandchildren, but found the “magical world
hard to follow, filled with strange names and words that would be gibberish
in any other context.
“I found it extremely complex,” he said, suggesting that a reference guide
might be useful.