Well if this genre is a stew then those who find Harry Potter delicious will certainly find Books of Magic tastey as well, even if you just like a hero's journey in a quick but dense world. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. It's not the ideas, it's what you do with them that matters.' 'Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. And I think I rather disappointed him by explaining that, no, I certainly didn't believe that Rowling had ripped off Books of Magic, that I doubted she'd read it and that it wouldn't matter if she had: I wasn't the first writer to create a young magician with potential, nor was Rowling the first to send one to school. The New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman weaves a mesmerizing tale of the dangers and possibilities of youth in THE Books OF MAGIC, illustrated by. Along the way hes introduced to Vertigos. Occult, and Mister E take Hunter on a tour of the magical realms. 'Back in November I was tracked down by a Scotsman journalist who had noticed the similarities between my Tim Hunter character and Harry Potter, and wanted a story. John Constantine, the Phantom Stranger, Dr.

Of course as a naive younger fan I suspected plagiarism but as I started to read more and learn about stories I realized how it was more so the Hero's Journey and a few coincidences. I was drawn to it as a Harry Potter fan that noticed the similarities between the characters Harry Potter/Tim Hunter and then found out that this story was published 7 years before The Philosophers Stone. I was enthralled by this story and couldn't put it down until I finished the last page. I cannot think of a better introduction to a world than what Tim Hunter experiences in the first pages.

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