Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "Professor Tim Wilson"
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Oh, do you, Professor (or someone else?) think that the Harry Potter books are "derivative"?? I never thought so: I always thought they were pretty original; not so much in terms of the "school story" aspect (there are, after all, plenty of school stories) but in terms of all the magic; the "wizarding world", and the "fantastic beasts", some of which are from medieval bestiaries, but many of which I know to be Ms Rowling's own invention! 🙂
I know Ursula Le Guin's Wizard Of Earthsea novels quite well (or I used to); but I have never seen fit to compare the two fantasy worlds/series.
No. What I was most interested in, and struck by, when I first started reading the novels (this was as an adult) was the incorporation of, and KNOWLEDGE of, so much medieval lore: and medieval OCCULT lore, such as about the real-life (and very mysterious) alchemist, Nicholas Flamel: whom I honestly thought only fellow readers like myself, of authors like Colin Wilson, would know about. (Obviously Rowling must have done quite some medieval French reading, in that part of her degree course!)
I was glad that Rowling mentioned, but did not STICK to, only the famous (semi) historical magicians EVERYBODY has heard of, such as Merlin.
THAT I thought was original!
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