The Legend of Rah and the Muggles

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The Legend of Rah and the Muggles (originally called simply "RAH") is a novel written by N.K. Stouffer, the author who is most famous for suing Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling over the use of the word 'Muggles'.

In September 2002, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York found not only that Rowling did not pilfer the Muggles, but also that Stouffer had lied to the court and doctored evidence to support her claims. Judge Allen G. Schwartz fined Stouffer $50,000 for this "pattern of intentional bad faith conduct". [1] Stouffer was also ordered to pay a portion of the plaintiff's attorney's fees.

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[edit] Plot

The story introduces the "Muggles": mutant descendants—bald, huge-headed, small, childish—of the people left behind in the island nation of Aura, many generations ago, when the wealthy deserted it and them in the wake of a nuclear war. Since that time Aura has been covered with a purple haze through which sunlight can barely trickle through.

All that changes with the arrival on the shore of Aura of two baby twin brothers aboard a makeshift raft; they were cast adrift by their mother when she saw that her own country was plunging into an all-destroying war. Aboard the raft along with the twins is a beautiful, enchanted illuminating stone, which brings sunlight back to Aura.

The two brothers are dubbed Rah (meaning "light") and Zyn (meaning "flower") and are nurtured by the Muggles. Although identical in every respect to begin with, their personalities come to differ radically: Rah grows up good and wise while Zyn grows up nasty and near diabolical.

[edit] Publication status

The Legend of Rah and the Muggles is currently out of print. Portions of Rah were originally published in booklet form by Ande Publishing Company in 1986, a company founded by Ms. Stouffer together with a group of friends and family.[2] Ande filed for bankruptcy in September 1987 without selling any of its booklets in the United States or elsewhere.[2] In the spring of 2001, The Legend of Rah and the Muggles (ISBN: 1589894006) was published by Thurman House, LLC, a Maryland publishing company.[2] Thurman House, formed by Ottenheimer Publishers to republish the works of Nancy Stouffer, was closed when Ottenheimer ceased operations in 2002 after filing for bankruptcy.[3]

Ms. Stouffer currently asserts any copies of the book published by Thurman House are unauthorized because the publisher failed to honor its contractual obligations to her.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Court throws out 'Muggles' claims against Rowling, USA Today, September 18, 2002
  2. ^ a b c Scholastic, Inc., et al. v. Stouffer, 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17531 (Sept. 17, 2002)
  3. ^ Ottenheimer Closing Down, Publishers Weekly, June 17, 2002
  4. ^ http://www.realmuggles.com/action.html#notice1

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