In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , opening next week , there are seven Harry Potters . But in real life , there have been way more ceramicist than that . Here ’s the complete list of story that people have charge of copying Potter .
Back in the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , it used to be thateverybody accused Harry Potter of being an imitation of some older fantasy account — but now it ’s the other way around . contain out the list :
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Actual Knock-offs
When people will buy anything Harry Potter - related , the temptation to create a imitation Potter intersection is almost preternaturally irresistible .
The Tanya Grotter Books by Dmitri Yemets
Whenthese booksfirst arrive out they made the rounds of all the Harry Potter blog and fansites . And author Dmitri Yemets has said they are a “ cultural reaction ” to Harry Potter and has support them against accusal of plagiarism by saying they are pasquinade . But even if they are mockery , you ’re not live on to find Tanya ’s adventures riding around on her flying dual bass voice in your local English language bookstore .
Unauthorized Chinese “ Sequels ”
Theseinclude Harry Potter and the Bao Zoulong , Harry Potter and the Filler of Big and a fake version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ( which had 70 % less teen angst ! ) . Bao Zoulong is most memorable for being primarily a Chinese translation of The Hobbit with the names changed to those of the Harry Potter characters . you could recreate this book at household with the “ find and exchange ” function in Word . There ’s also Harry Potter and the Chinese Overseas Students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry , in which a group of Taiwanese bookman come to Hogwarts and — of course — are way good at conjuration than Harry and his Friend . And then there’sthis fantastic bookcalled Harry Potter and Beakwr and Bum , where Harry team up with a dinosaur and the bug from A Bug ’s Life :
Harry Potter in Calcutta by Uttam Ghosh
There ’s not much on the cyberspace about this unauthorized sequel , except that Harry Potter does locomote to Calcutta and Bloomsbury , Harry Potter ’s UK newspaper publisher , shut it down .
And then there’sthis person ’s screaming post on Answers.comabout their not - at - all - Harry - relate taradiddle idea .
Harry Squatter and the Sorcerer ’s off-white
hackneyed of read Harry Potter slash fable ? you’re able to alwayswatch actual Harry Potter homosexual pornography . ( word of advice : Link definitely NSFW ! ) Here ’s the endorsement :
A large stranger present up at Harry ’s door and pulls him away from his sometime spirit to a new one of trick and sexuality ! Lawyer Ronald shows the bighearted mankind a few tricks of his own and David exercise his sleight of hand by pulling au naturel men out of thin melodic line ! Next Siggy attempts to levitate a vase but ends up levitate an object in Ron ’s pants ! Finally , Harry satisfy the schooling ’s Headmaster , who shows him the thaumaturge ’s bone , and the true significance of the term Headmaster !
Wait . Who ’s Siggy ?
Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody by Michael Gerber
There have been awhole slewof Harry Potter parodies , but this is the most famous , and itstill has a burgeon web site . From the blurb :
Hogwash School for Wizardry and Witchcrap is the most famous school in the wizarding world and Barry Trotter is its most renowned pupil . It ’s been that way ever since J.G. Rollins ’ Barry Trotter and the Philosopher ’s Scone broke publishing record book worldwide . So important has Barry become to the school ’s bottom - line that it has been agree that he can stay at Hogwash for as long as he likes . Barry Trotter is 22 .
There ’s also Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel and Barry Trotter and the Dead Horse .
Harry’s Children
And then there are the properties that simply mount the wave of Harry Potter sexual love .
Percy Jackson and the Olympians , by Rick Riordan
This comparison seems to get a lot of internet child’s play from masses who have n’t read their Joseph Campbell . But at leastone individual has mapped out all the part and plot parallel of latitude . But with all the Greek mythology alternatively of westerly European mythology , the end result is quite different . However , if you take a gander at the first Harry Potter and ( so far ) only Percy Jackson films , you may notice plenty of similarities in cinematic style . That ’s probably because Christopher Columbus directed both . The most damnatory grounds ? Neither Percy nor Harry can get their haircloth to detain flat .
The Landon Snow books by R.K. Mortensen
When Harry Potter first achieved popularity , there was a Brobdingnagian shout among Christian parents , fearing that the record book were expose their kids to witchcraft . So these account book wereexplicitly marketed as Harry Potter for Christians . articulate the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance : “ Christian parent are at long last declare oneself a true Potter alternative … All the adventure of Harry Potter … None of the black art ! ” R.K. Mortensen is an ordinate Lutheran diplomatic minister , who ’s been writing inspirational article since 1995 . Of course , the lack of sorcery in reality makes these more or less different from the Harry Potter record , and there ’s also the fact that they ’re much faint and fluffier , and apparently check frequent belch jokes . And , natch , there ’s a Christian content throughout .
The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
similarity : Virtually none . Everybody know these books are really a combination of Star Wars , Lord of The Rings and Dragon Riders of Pern . But that does n’t mean these books did n’t do good hugely from Harry Potter . Harry Potter is published in the U.S. by Scholastic , and is a virtual cash machine for the ship’s company . The books , and Scholastic ’s stinger of the ware , fundamentally fund Scholastic for a decade . Who would n’t want that ? Eragon and its sequels were blame up by Knopf after the record had been self bring out . Knopf ’s publicity and marketing department hop beyond Leslie Townes Hope that this would be the next Harry Potter . In fact , they did pretty well without ever becoming a once in a life phenomenon that was Harry Potter . Is there proof that this book would n’t have gotten release otherwise ? No . But the number of books that have moved from self - publish to major publishing theatre ? Well … there ’s this one .
Harri Puttar : A Comedy of brat
This Bollywood movie is more a countercurrent - off of Home Alone than of the Harry Potter book / films , except for the main eccentric ’s name . That did n’t break Warner Bros. fromfiling a lawsuit , however .
The Mystical Adventures of Billy Owens
An 11 - year - honest-to-god boy regain a wand in a 2d - hand store and discovers he is … expect for it … a boy wizard , in this serial publication of two films . Says Screenhead :
Billy has two friends , an underachiever discover Devon and a clearly academic know - it - all named Mandy . There ’s even a school bully who unrelentingly pursues Billy , with his two ass-kisser . Imagine how loud and long I laughed when I realized that the school bully had his own Krabbe and Goyle .
In the subsequence , Billy and his protagonist find an amulet that sends their teacher Thurgood ( “ Rowdy ” Roddy Piper ! ) into a deep , magical sleep — which makes him the lucky thespian in this serial . ( “ I come here to sound off ass , chew bubblegum , or sleep through the rest of the pic . And I ’m out of bubble gingiva , and I ’ve got a leg cramp iron . Ooh , here ’s a comfy workbench . Zzzzzzz . ” )
Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Obert Skye
hold back , what ? At least “ Leven Thumps ” is a great name for a fantasy fighter . write the Christian Science Monitor , “ An orphaned teenage boy raise by a loathsome auntie and uncle on the spur of the moment discovers he has hidden top executive and link to a sorcerous human beings . Sound familiar ? ” patently , even the face is designed to put you in intellect of Potter . The chief divergence is that the land of Foo is a dream world , and “ Leven Thumps ” has to halt the evil Sabine from bring Foo into the real world , in which case we ’d all be FUBAR . Leven is bring together by a “ adolescent nit who can freeze anything , ” a Dobby the House Elf clone , and the rightful King of Foo , who ’s jug in a toothpick .
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
When this book came out in 2002 it was hailed as ‘ the next Harry Potter . ’ If you actually record it , you ’d know it was n’t . It is a fancy book with a pre - teen antogonist ( Artemis is the bad cat ! The good guy is a pansy cop ! ) but that ’s as near as you ’re endure to get . Is there a case ? Only in the delusional minds of Hyperion Books For Children ’s marketing sectionalisation . They were clearly trying to wide the waves of Harry Potter fanaticism , but the literal similarity are pretty slight .
thaumaturge of Waverly Place ( Disney TV Show )
Teenage whiz who have to live their magical lives on the down miserable , while fight erupt in school . This is HP lite : parents are still animated and most of the conflict are of the “ situation comedy misunderstanding ” type . And if there is a big guy , they ’re contend with within the half hour . Still , this show really would n’t exist without Harry Potter . Disney may have a chokehold on big0screen cock-and-bull story and a data track record of creating one or two fantasy TV motion-picture show per class , but Wizards of Waverly Place is different . Wizards never got much gambling except as bad guys in the Disney cannon before this . Also , the relentless school family witching focus of the show just feels like a water down version of the real thing . It ’s also from a writer on Hannah Montana , suggesting an seek to tap into the kiddie zeitgeist . Finally , Waverly Place in Manhattan , while it has a lovely assonance with the word Wizard , is NYU stomping ground and not the sort of home a squeamish kinsperson show should really be set . It is however , about a fifteen moment walk from Scholastic ’s New York main office . Secret Disney F - U to the new kings of tiddler ’s spiritualist ? Oh yeah . Rip - off ? Not really .
Charlie Bone ( The youngster of the Red King Series ) by Jenny Nimmo
A young son ( this time age 10 ) hold up with his horrid congener , but discovers he has charming power and is direct off to a boarding school for magical children where he makes friends and fight evil , throughout many books . He identify a great deal about his all in parents and his ancestry . Also he ’s amaze sullen fuzz . Charlie Bone is compared to Harry Potter so often he might as well be a Harry clone . But his boarding schooltime is run by evil , hypnotizing kidnaper . And the ultimate battle between secure and evil is finally frame up as a family affair . Perhaps it would be more like Harry Potter if Harry ’s kinfolk was more like Draco ’s and he began schooling while Dolores Umbrige was in charge .
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
When the London Timescallsyour book “ Harry Potter for grown - ups , ” there may be something there . And Grossmanhas writtenthat mold on this book of account was “ my coping mechanism ” while waiting two years for the next Potter book . As Flavorwire put it , “ Quentin Coldwater is similar to Harry Potter in that he ’s attend a school that instruct magic , but this story is more grownup than J.K. Rowling ’s series – cogitate sex , drugs , and the streets of New York City . ” But his magical Earth of Fillory owe more to Narnia than to anything in the Potterverse . And the magical war in the book is much more blood-related to advanced political strife than any pure good vs. pure malefic struggle .
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
This series ( like all other supernatural romances localize in embarkation school day ) is the unholy alliance of Hogwarts with Twilight ’s stripling love triangles and supernatural chill . Yes , there have always been books about charming kids going away to learn new things , but this is now its own subgenre . And it would n’t exist without Harry Potter . ( And Twilight ) . Other Good Book include : The Delacroix Academy by Inara Scott , Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus , Evernight by Claudia Gray , House of Night by P.C and Kristin Cast , Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins , Goddess Boot Camp by Tera Lynn Childs , Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon , Immortal by Gillian Shields , Firespell by Chloe Niell etc .
The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
You know how in Harry Potter , the bad Guy need to predominate the muggle world and the just hombre apply bureaucratism like the Ministry of Magic ’s Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes , The wrong Use of Magic Office , The Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures ? Okay , now imagine a more or less mod humans where the ace expend their bureaucratism to control the population at orotund , wage war from Britain against the Czech Empire , and endeavor to pigeonhole out dissent in the North American Colonies . The Bartimaeus Trilogy is n’t a rip - off of the Harry Potter playscript , per se ( at a fundamental grade , magic trick comes from demons in this universe ) but it does seem to imagine what would come about if the guys in charge of Rowling ’s Ministry of Magic were , well , a act more human in their ambitions . It helps differentiate itself by being primarily recite by the eponymous Bartimaeus , a djinn capture by and bring for a young apprentice sorcerer .
The Seeker : The Dark Is Rising
This 2007 pic adaptation of Susan Cooper ’s beloved 1970s ledger series took huge liberties with the informant material — and one reason for this was to make it more appealing to the Potter fans . Asthe New York Post put it , “ a teen boy is instruct by grown - up wise man in the use of goods and services of charming business leader while a dark lord who comes in many formats promises an epic battle . ” Right onthe even of his 14th birthday , Will Stanton discovers he ’s actually a magical boy who must feel the six mansion and release the Light . The actual storyline is only mistily Potter - esque , but it ’s distinctly an attempt to appeal to Potter fans .
Other fantasy movie epics
In the 1980s , there were 18 English language theatrically released phantasy filmsaimed at minor In the 2000s , there were 60 , ( not counting the Harry Potter motion picture , or the Pirates of the Caribbean films or Lord of the Rings film , which were train at teenager and up . ) No matter how good the origin stuff , these films would probably not have been made without Harry Potter : Eragon , Tuck Everlasting , Bridge to Terabithia , The City of Ember , The Lion , The Witch and the Wardrobe , Voyage of the Unicorn ( from the book Voyage of the Basset ) , The Golden Compass or Inkheart ( from the book of the same name ) . Not to cite Nic Cage ’s The Sorcerer ’s Apprentice , in which Jay Baruchel is trained in magic and discovers he ’s the only one who can stop an evil illusionist and economise the public .
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