Representatives of the late British writer, Adrian Jacobs, think so! And they are also charging the US publishers.
From TopNews by by Kiran Pahwa (no decent link found):
Late British writer Adrian Jacobs' representatives had alleged that the author approached Rowling''s U. K. publishers Bloomsbury in 1987, ten years before his death, and unsuccessfully attempted to sell them his Willy The Wizard stories.
The lawsuit claims Rowling''s 2000 book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, bears a r...
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