Yeah, I'd imagine that the same rules that protect literary criticism and summaries (like SparkNotes, CliffNotes, etc.) would apply here. Then again, the choic

Yeah, I'd imagine that the same rules that protect literary criticism and summaries (like SparkNotes, CliffNotes, etc.) would apply here. Then again, the choice of Rowling is probably intentional, because she actually did take an author to court for publishing what was essentially a fan's 'almanac' of character information (ie, a lexicon which would list things like the characters' birthdays, etc.).