Steven Vander Ark sure could use Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak right about now. This week the former middle school librarian has been embroiled in a sensitive trial over whether his forthcoming 400-page book, The Harry Potter Lexicon, an A to Z of all things Potter, borrows too much from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series

In the Oscar nominated film Atonement, a young man is falsely accused of rape--an accusation that tragically alters the course of a family's life. In real life many defendants in civil lawsuits choose not to go to trial, despite their innocence.