That's a bizarre argument. At best, it supports software copyrights, not patents. Books are human readable and not secret, from which it doesn't remotely follow

That's a bizarre argument. At best, it supports software copyrights, not patents. Books are human readable and not secret, from which it doesn't remotely follow that it's reasonable for there to be a patent on the plot of a boy going to wizard school. And as noted the open source comment is a huge WTF.