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Those contracts were signed a long time ago. The first version of _Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_ was released in 1997!

Edited to add: Hindsight doesn't wear glasses. ;)

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Right but new books have been published since then. I am sure the contract has changed over the years as new things have been brought into the fold, movies for example. You would have thought that by book 4 someone would have brought this up.

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