Stolen Dumbledore

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Originally Posted by Airerûthiel

No offence to JK Rowling but she steals loads of other people's ideas: parts of Dumbledore the character are very likely to have been taken from Gandalf in my opinion, and Aragog is so just Shelob but male! I think she got the Grim in book 3 from someone else as well but I can't quite remember what it is...

Regarding the grim, It was probibly based on the Barghest, a monstrous dog with huge teeth and claws from the area around northern England. It only appears at night. People believe that anyone who sees the dog clearly will die soon after the encounter. In Wales, they have the red-eyed Gwyllgi, the Dog of Darkness. There may also have been a reference to the grim in the wheel of time. I forget though. just makeing a point. that the idea wasn't origonal.

You don't have to be harsh about authors using previously used ideas I guess.