Books of Magic came out a bit before the first Harry Potter novel, didn't it? I remember being struck by how very much Harry resembled Tim Hunter when I first became aware of the series. Down to the owl.
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Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 25, 2008 6:14:43 am PDT #8153 of 10002
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Wolfram - Sep 25, 2008 6:27:43 am PDT #8154 of 10002
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To be fair, Books of Magic didn't invent the archetype of the dark-haired, bespectacled boy who gains or discovers he has powers. But there's definitely a resemblance.
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Books of Magic came out a bit before the first Harry Potter novel, didn't it? I remember being struck by how very much Harry resembled Tim Hunter when I first became aware of the series. Down to the owl.
Yeah, I think Neil Gaiman mentioned that in his blog once.
To be fair, Books of Magic didn't invent the archetype of the dark-haired, bespectacled boy who gains or discovers he has powers.
And he basically said this.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 25, 2008 8:28:11 am PDT #8156 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The owl familiar and the bitter adult authority figure who's sure the budding wizard will go bad and therefore behaves ultra-scary towards him both struck me as a bit more specific correspondence than the archetype would warrant, though.
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P.M. Marc - Sep 25, 2008 10:48:48 am PDT #8159 of 10002
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What I particularly like about Books of Magic, though, is that whilst Harry Potter draws on a very comfortable, middle class tradition of UK kidlit (Mallory Towers, The Chalet School, Narnia [and to some extent The Dark is Rising, although I think there's more strangeness, darkness and threat in there] etc etc), the world we encounter in The Books of Magic is more raw, grounded and dirt-under-the-fingernails...and simultaneously much more genuinely strange, frightening and magical than the HP world. There isn't a sense of limitations and rules, of magic words and wands - it's more unpredictable, more dangerous, more terrible. Stage magicians speaking backwards, the gate into fairyland...I suppose partly it's the nature of the medium, and the impact of the artwork of the various artists, but I think there's also a real sense of wild, untamed magic in TBoM which is lacking in HP. (Not HP-bashing - I like the series a lot.)