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"Back in November I was tracked down by a Scotsman journalist who had noticed the similarities between my Tim Hunter character and Harry Potter, and wanted a story. And I think I rather disappointed him by explaining that, no, I certainly *didnt* believe that Rowling had ripped off Books of Magic, that I doubted shed read it and that it wouldnt matter if she had: I wasnt the first writer to create a young magician with potential, nor was Rowling the first to send one to school. Its not the ideas, its what you do with them that matters. Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on."
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Harry Potter (series)
