What are the literary origins of the boy wizard and the wizard school? Well...you can probably figure that out from the thumbnail. Nevertheless, I shall, if ...

Huh turns out JK is even less creative than we thought and maybe/prolly cribbed off some (A LOT) of the concepts from Ursula K Leguin's works.

  • Ithorian [comrade/them, null/void]
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    2 years ago

    (b) don’t seem to understand how banal the idea of “Wizard High School” was even back in the late 90s

    I was in middle school in the mid '90s and my buddy an I tried to write a fantasy novel, the first half of the book was set in a school for magic users. Every idea we had for that story was blatantly stolen from some other book we'd read.