Um, this thread has kinda been done hundreds of times before, but I'll post anyway.
Harry potter is extremely similar to LotR, but SO WHAT? Its clearly almost definitely NOT a coincidence, but I must say I loved the harry potter books. If JKR did in fact copy soe things, then she has done a good job of transforming them. I mean the whole overall plot of most stories is the same: GOOD
vs EVIL
[img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] . Would you call it bad that JRRT "borrowed" a few ideas from previous stories? NO, because the way he did it is completely amazing! Same with JKR, she may not have all original ideas, but at least what she does is
good. If it was completely unimaginative, THEN I'd let off steam!
