It's been going on for seven years now, but J.K Rowling has finally managed to avoid being accused of stealing another authors work.A claim was made that the Harry Potter author stole the story 'Goblet of Fire' from Jacobs' book, 'Willy the Wizard'.
The claim failed to go through after the court did not get a deadline payment.
The deadline was 4pm on last Friday, and the person who claimed this failed to pay in the sum of £1.5 million.
A representative for Bloomsbury said: "They have not paid the money into court. The whole thing is a scandal - it has been going on for seven years. It was an absolutely ludicrous case."
J.K Rowling said the claims were 'absurd', and had never heard of the book until the claims surfaced.
It's thought that the author of 'Willy the Wizard' made the claims to help promote the book.
While 'The Goblet of Fire' held 734 pages, 'Willy the Wizard' only held 16, making the judge state the point that it was 'entirely devoid of a moral message or intellectual depth'.
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