Author accused of plagerisim, Another lawsuit

While I was perusing the news, this story caught my eye.

" J.K. Rowling "Saddened" by Potter Plagiarism Claims 

 

The heat has been turned up under Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
J.K Rowling has been tacked on as a defendant in a lawsuit filed against her U.K. publisher in 2004, which claims that the bestselling author plagiarized part of the fourth book in her über-successful Harry Potter series.
The suit alleges that, in writing Goblet of Fire, Rowling ripped off the 1987 children's book The Adventures of Willy the Wizard: No. 1 Livid Land by Adrian Jacobs, who died in 1997.
To which the embattled author says, "Hogwarts," er, "hogwash."
"I am saddened that yet another claim has been made that I have taken material from another source to write Harry," Rowling said in a statement released by her rep to Bloomberg Business Week .
"The fact is I had never heard of the author or the book before the first accusation by those connected to the author's estate in 2004; I have certainly never read the book."
She continued: "The claims that are made are not only unfounded but absurd and I am disappointed that I, and my U.K. publisher Bloomsbury, are put in a position to have to defend ourselves."
Rowling says that counsel for her and Bloomsbury will move immediately for the case to be dismissed for lack of merit.
Jacobs' estate says that it was the late author who came up with the idea of wizard prisons, hospitals and schools, long before Harry's lightning bolt scar was a glimmer in Rowling's eye.
Also mentioned in the suit is that Jacbos and Rowling shared the same literary agent, Christopher Little.
Bloomsbury has denied all accusations of plagiarism on Rowling's part."


I'm not quite sure about this law suit after reading this story. I mean first off,  why just book four of the series and not the whole series of books? If I recall, the first mention of St. Mungos is in book 2 when they asked about Lockhart. the prision was mentioned in book three with the demnetors and Sirius Black escaping from there and the school is in every book.
I have to side with JK Rowling on this one and call the lawsuit rubbish. I think most of these people just try to make some obscure thing, trying to get a piece of the Harry Potter empire