Harry Potter's Premiere on "60 Minutes"

By: Overtime Staff
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With the release this week of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," "60 Minutes Overtime" travels back in time to 1999, when J.K. Rowling opened up her spellbook to Lesley Stahl. Daniel Radcliffe had not yet been cast as "the boy who lived" and the Hogwarts Express sat waiting at platform 9 and 3/4.

Before quidditch became a beloved sport and floo powder was the chic way to travel, J.K. Rowling was a struggling writer, relying on welfare to feed her infant daughter. She filed her magical world away in cardboard boxes. Each container filled to the top with scraps of paper chronicling Harry, Ron, and Hermione's struggle against Lord Voldemort.

Multiple publishers rejected her manuscript. By chance, an agent named Christopher Little pulled it out of the "slush pile" and began reading. Recognizing its brilliance, he convinced Bloomsbury to publish the book. Without publicity, sales climbed as word of Harry's adventures spread first from child to child and then parent to parent. With over 400 million books sold worldwide, it has become the most successful series of all time.

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by gomouse May 1, 2013 3:22 AM EDT

I am Greg Simcock. My pseudonym is J. K. Rawling. I am the original creator of the Harry Potter stories concepts and designs. Jo Rowling is a plagiarist who hasn't been found out! To give you an idea how much effort has gone into hiding the truth to the true origins of the Harry Potter stories you must do some research and think. You will save a lot of time if you simply believe me. I mean no harm to you by revealing what I do. I just want you to know that I created the Harry Potter stories over about 15 years before my work got stolen. You now know my main characters and creatures and all title names I had written for my stories. The reason the stories were quickly written to a series is because I had set them out to be those stories in productions. I could not publish my stories or inventions after their theft. I fell into a deep depressive state of mind full of anxiety and I feared my life. I locked my home with me inside it and went through very hot days without any open doors. That fear was real but not just because of the Harry Potter stories theft. It was because of my technical design theft that caused me to fear my life was threatened. One example is because of the money generated from my inventions and one of my creations is known as the VISA-Card. VISA stands for "VERY IMPORTANT SIMCOCK ACCESSORY" and it was specially created to be a globally recognized credit card for use by business and venture travelers but in one's home country it was as a one-card-does-it-all credit card. It was to simplify the way money was used by travelers. Jo Rowling sold my writes to Warner Brothers. She is a plagiarist and one who has stopped at nothing to deceive you of the real originator of the stories she has become well known for. The website I setup as http://artifacts.yolasite.com, on 30-Apr-2013, was shut-down by the web-host of that website without any prior warning to me. I have built it over a year for your benefit as well as mine but without it you loose as I do. I am tired of holding onto so much detail about my inventions but when websites are shut down without warning that is an indication of just how serious the matter is and how the people with the money to make orders that can affect the promotion of what is really true of the stories origins. If you need to write to me I am contactable on facebook as Greg Simcock and J. K. Rawling. On you-tube I am earnamint. If there is an internationally oriented law firm that knows how to deal with my claim for copyright infringement against authors of my stories and inventions, including J. K. Rowling and James Cameron, then please contact me at mygod@tpg.com.au. There are many inventions and hundreds of stories I created but lost to a thief's actions I don't know what to do to present my losses so I keep my posts to a small area of works I can prove are of my origin. My surname is in the story of Harry Potter and so is my signature. I haven't reveal where though.

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by gomouse May 1, 2013 3:42 AM EDT: If you are curious as to what things I created design concepts of then here are a sample: I created the Segway Human Transporter. It is one of my technical designs. It uses gyro's to balance its main standing platform and it was one of the technical inclusions I added to it from knowledge gained in my nine years military service. Some of my stories I created as sets of story-boards for production include: Romancing The Stone, Back To The Future, The Lion King, Finding NEMO, Denis The Menace, Dora The Explorer, The Koala Brothers, Roary, Larry The Lawnmower, In The Night Garden, Thomas The Tank Engine, Shawn The Sheep, Creature Comforts, Mr. Bean, The Forty Year Old Virgin, The Trouble With Mary, Meet The Fockers, TERMINATOR, AVATAR, TITANIC, Spiderman. There were hundreds of stories in addition to the ones I have mentioned here that I created as sets of story-boards for production and there were about 1000 inventions designed to be made when money was raised. My drawing activity was over many years work in my private residence and in my own time without one cent of income from it all. I served nine years in the Australian Army until I could no longer sign-on for further service. If the stories I have mentioned seem to be a lot of work for this one creator then it must be understood that I put many hours into the design and creation of drawings as I designed many technical things and after their completion I had accumulated drawings that were not needed to promote my designs and so I used those drawings to form hundreds of stories. The stories had title names and main characters and features in the designed story-boards for their production to be made from their use by a producer. Finding NEMO was named so that it reminded me that the story would find me some money. It is a story of an adventurous little clown fish that strays out of the shelter of his natural surroundings and is rescued by his father. The Lion King is a story with a similar story about love and disobedience. It is based on my life and a time when I strayed from home and got hurt. In stead of telling my story the way it occurred I made me the lion cub that ventures into the restricted land I called an elephants graveyard. My father was dying of cancer of the bowel at the time when I was constructing the story-board for my Lion King story and I wanted to remember him as the loving father he was for my family and me, so I built the expected demise of my father by including him and his death in my story. I saw my father as the King and me as the lion cub who grows up and becomes the Lion King. I made up the name "Simba" from my surname of 'Simcock' so that I would become the lion King after my fathers death. When my friend, Alan Page, asked me many questions about my stories I included details that would remind me, if ever they were heard, seen, or read, at a later time of my work. My initials were included in the title name of Harry Potter for use by me so as to recognize my work in that characters name and design. I set letter G between Ha of Harry and letter S between Po of Potter. In fact, the name is a wavy form because I designed Harry Potter on top of my initial letters lying down. All of the stories and designs I have mentioned in this article were asked about by Alan Page and he wanted to know about all of their details and purpose in my stories and projects. My work got thieved and the products made. You now have hundreds of stories in books and films that I originated as story-boards for production or publishing as picture-books, as well as many inventions that you use daily without knowing who actually created them. At least my inventions got made. I do use and enjoy some of them but my genius is not recognised because of theft and frauds who have promoted my work without reference to their creator. I am Greg Simcock, Author J. K. Rawling. Jo Rowling is a plagiarist of my main story project. Can you imagine better now that you have read what I have written? Its theft and plagiarism that has enabled my creations get well promoted and distributed around this wonderful world of mine! Actually I had created many wonderful worlds that my stories were set in. If you can assemble the stories I have mentioned you will see some have a similar theme. They often are humorous to watch or include technical elements. I put a lot of knowledge into my stories developments.


by gomouse January 19, 2013 12:04 PM EST: The Harry Potter stories were the original creation of Gregory Ronald Simcock. I am the true creator of the original stories of Harry Potter. That information is very true. My website; "http://artifacts.yolasite.com" explains my claim in more detail. It is one thing to create a story but to create seven stories in one is unusual. My stories of Harry Potter were created initially as one but it grew and grew until the artwork for the story was too many and so I separated the story into sections and formed title names for each section. There were five titles formed, then a friend visiting me at my home picked up my design file, opened it and began to ask me a series of questions about the stories. After being told the details of the stories he asked me if there were any other title names. I then added two extra title names with a coded message for me to recognize if they were ever seen or noticed published. I am a man and my job as a cinema projectionist in the Australian Army was the force and ground where I was in and where I began to form the first story of the series. I hope you see the lies in the video hear and understand how plagiarism has affected this one unknown author. The stories had to be left to be produced as I could not stop the stories being written-up and published. Jo Rowling did not originate the many main names or stories, characters or main title names. They were of my original design and creation. She has spoken against plagiarism and yet people have believed she has plagiarized another authors work. I am that unknown author. All I ask of you is a fair-go and belief in my claims. The 60 minute video is interesting because the children reveal how the stories appear as a visual story they can almost see. That is the purpose of my creating the stories in the first place as story-boards for production. Jo Rowling saw the graphic story elements and wrote about them. That is why her descriptions of the things in the stories is so imaginable as if they are visualized after the reading of the books. My art was wonderful but Jo Rowling has not credited me with my art or anything else I had designed of the stories. That was an enormous amount. You must not allow yourself to let plagiarism go unheard. I introduce myself in two short video's. My video's are on You-Tube: Video 0001: DTjb_x2c4xE, video 0002; Z75p04T3Uoo I am Gregory Ronald Simcock, as author J. K. Rawling. Can you see how much has been done to hide the true origins of the Harry Potter stories? My writers name was formed after I had created another story I named "The Lion King". I took Simcock, altered it to Simbar and took off letter 'r' leaving Simba as the lion cubs name. I am Simba in that story and lead my friends on an adventure into the wild and dangerous lands in Africa, but in the Harry Potter stories I am Harry and lead my friends on adventures into the creepy castles and forests in England. Give Jo Rowling the credit for writing-up the novels but I ask that you give me credit for creating the stories main bodies with much of what has been presented in the novels. Without my work the stories of Harry Potter would not be known as Jo Rowling's novels. I have written a lot of information about the true origins of Harry Potter on my website. I named it Artifacts because the information I write to it is about my Art and it is Facts that I reveal on that site. Happy days, Greg Simcock.; Reply to this comment


by danhanson14 June 5, 2012 1:31 AM EDT: Cant wait for her new book!!!; Reply to this comment


by tooolnut November 22, 2010 11:20 AM EST: Your player won't start! The countdown freezes at "your video will begin in 11 seconds."; Reply to this comment

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