Thank you.

I do not have any very fully worked-up ideas. I can only say that I feel the PCC is toothless, that it offers very little in the way of sanctions to newspapers, that it's a wrist-slapping exercise at best. That we need -- and I should say I'm vehemently ...

Yes.

Thank you.

He had changed hospitals, which seemed to be the reason Ms Malone assumed that because he'd disappeared from one hospital, he must have given up work entirely to be at my beck and call. And I would -- again, one of the reasons why I was keen to give evidence ...

Thank you, sir. Ms Malone wrote a short piece in which she alleged in very vehement language that I had married a doctor and doubtless had been attracted to him partly because of his job and he had -- you know, he was someone who was doing a very worthwhile job ...

It did.

I thought it was.

Yes, so am I, but I know it's in here.

To whom I'd already dedicated the first book.

Yes, sir.

I do not recall ever asking my publishers to tell -- to tell a newspaper I was angry. I -- this -- as you know, you told me I would be asked this question just shortly before we came into court, and I've been racking my brains as to what this refers ...

No.

Yes.

In fact it says here:

"Her new book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, is the third in her series."

The picture here is of the first book, but I see the date on it is 1999, so that would have been when the third book was published, not the second.

Sorry, no, this is 1999, so that would have been around the time that the third book was published.

I am.

Yes.

I am happy to answer questions on this. I don't know what's coming, but I am. I sort of skimmed through it just before I came up here to sit down. I'd just seen it. I'm happy to talk about it.

I was just given it before I came up here to --

We've coped.

Yes, it makes sense. I wasn't aware this had appeared. In fact, I thought that they weren't going to run the article, so I -- this has been slightly sprung on me, but I don't really know what to say about it.

Yes, I see.

Yes.

I don't -- it's just ludicrous. I truly ... I find it ludicrous. How is this -- I mean, I do not recognise these plants they say I'm going to plant, and as I've been very involved in the garden, clearly I've either overlooked something important or they ...

Yes, I see myself in this little article.

Thank you very much.

I wasn't aware that anything had appeared.

Oh yes, I'm interested to know.

Thank you.

I'm going to need to find it, but I really did want to talk about that one.

It was about my husband, I think, in the Sunday Mirror.

We've actually -- if you don't mind, we've skated over an article that I'm finding it difficult to find it in my bundle here.

This was quite a bizarre story, really. We did receive notice on this occasion that the Scottish Sunday Times wished to run an article about what we were planting in our garden, and I couldn't really understand why that was of any public interest at all.

Then we were ...

I think this just builds a picture of how very difficult it is to stop defamatory articles of any nature, because no prior notification that this was going to be printed, no opportunity to correct the story, but also it does spread like fire. You're stamping in one area ...

Yes. The original story said that I walked into this house, which in actual fact is our family home now, that I glanced at two rooms, that I then offered a vast amount of money to get the owner out virtually instantly because I wished to host a Christmas party ...

Now this one was untrue from beginning to end. There was an allegation printed that I was taking legal action against a man who was writing fan literature. It was simply untrue, and in fact I had never heard of him until this accusation was made against me.

I truly can't remember, but I know that it was small and it certainly didn't occupy the same kind of space that the original article did.

Yes. This was really quite horrible because it caused real distress to my oldest child.

The Daily Express published an article saying that I had based an unpleasant character in the Harry Potter books on my ex-husband. This was wholly untrue, and their justification for writing this was that I ...

Yes, they were very, very difficult to deal with on that occasion. They dragged their feet for a very long time, they didn't want to admit that they'd done what we knew they had done, and the apology was minuscule.

Yes. I think people might think that's quite a banal occurrence, but in fact it's not. If you are trying, as I am, to make it quite clear that my personal life -- my family life is out of bounds, then the perception that I had granted an interview ...

Yes.

That's the sixth one, yes. Yes, I would agree that this was less serious.

This is opinion. My opinion is that if one shows oneself prepared to take a stand, then I suppose I would say that the press has maybe been wary of me latterly, in that they ...

Yes. This is to me a classic example of -- again I accept this is far from being all journalists, but there is a section of the press that sees opportunities in a situation like this and I felt I was being blackmailed. What they really wanted was a photograph of ...

A great deal happened. There was no straightforward handover of the book.

A review of the book was published, which really was a way of publishing some of the contents, paraphrased. This in spite of the fact that they had promised not to reveal -- in court, they had promised not ...

Well, it's my belief, but I would need to check with my lawyers, that a John Doe injunction was taken out against whoever may have a copy of the information.

I believe the story was that an unemployed gentleman had found a copy of Harry Potter in a field. I find that story rather difficult to believe, but there you are.

So we had taken every reasonable step to try and prevent prepublication leaks, and now the manuscript was in ...

Yes.

No. I barely used a mobile phone in the 1990s, which now seems like a very smart move, but it wasn't deliberate.