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Old 02-19-2010, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by psusue View Post
I don't think that she's saying here that there are x number of books which have the exact same concepts of wizard schools, contests, and hospitals. What I think she's saying here is that wizards = humans. Humans go to schools, hold contests, and require hospitals. They are simply human concepts that are also found in the "wizarding world". Most sci-fi novels are this way. That's all I think that she was saying.
That is exactly what I was saying. It just didn't seem like much of a stretch of the imagination to put a school, hospital, or some sort of contest in the books. Especially since Rowling's wizarding world seems very similar to the normal, non wizarding world. That was all I meant by my comment.
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