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.

  • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Before that even. That basically the setting for the Xmen. Weird boarding schools would be even more familiar to a brit

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, heck, even the universities. You get why His Dark Materials was written because I swear Oxford exists in another reality and the bus from london switches over in the last 20 min.