Also the weird racist/classist under(over?)tones.
Needles & Grooves
DJSJ
Ponman2003
Wait I thought it was anti-classist
LeSamourai
It both is and isn't.
Phaneronic
what lesamourai said.
They're also all constructed like mystery novels, weirdly.
They're also all constructed like mystery novels, weirdly.
ayayrawn
Tolkien ripped all of his stuff from the bible and norse mythology. HP's fatal flaw is definitely the problematic undertones of every sort.
DJSJ
It's a fun thought experiment. It was started by reading Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic actually. It's like Harry Potter 5-10 years before it was written.