JK Rowling faces (another) Plagiarism suit

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Rowling was drawing on some specific genres -- fantasy/quest, the coming-of-age novel (Bildungsroman) and its subgenre -- the British boarding school novel (a la Thomas Hardy and others) -- and others.

ENGLISH LITERATURE GEEK WHO DID HER MASTER'S THESIS ON THOMAS HARDY ALERT!

Thomas Hardy? Perhaps you mean Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes?

[DDDlady]

Originally Posted by psusue

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.