Orson Scott Card ripped Joanne a couple of new ones a few days back. He pulls no punches. Some highlights:
This frivolous lawsuit puts at serious risk the entire tradition of commentary on fiction. Any student writing a paper about the Harry Potter books, any scholarly treatise about it, will certainly do everything she's complaining about.
Rowling has nowhere to go and nothing to do now that the Harry Potter series is over. After all her literary borrowing, she shot her wad and she's flailing about trying to come up with something to do that means anything.
Talent does not excuse Rowling's ingratitude, her vanity, her greed, her bullying of the little guy, and her pathetic claims of emotional distress.
People who hear about this suit will have a sour taste in their mouth about Rowling from now on. Her Cinderella story once charmed us. Her greedy evil-witch behavior now disgusts us. And her next book will be perceived as the work of that evil witch.
Not related to the lawsuit but I liked this part the best:
'It's like her stupid, self-serving claim that Dumbledore was gay. She wants credit for being very up-to-date and politically correct but she didn't have the guts to put that supposed "fact" into the actual novels, knowing that it might hurt sales.'
I thought that whole 'oh and by the way, Dumbledore's gay' thing was the dumbest, biggest attention whore move imaginable. Jesus lady, you've made untold millions off a series of books that really weren't all that great when you come down to it. Count your blessings (and your money) and retire in peace already.