I despise the "JK Rowling was rejected by twelve publishers before publishing Harry Potter" factoid because it's characterized as some kind of triumphant upending of the clueless literary establishment and not multiple professionals recognizing it was completely derivative work
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The whole "wizard school" concept was an ongoing genre for a long time, and it's very hard to believe that JK Rowling had never read, say, The Worst Witch, which is extremely reminiscent of Harry Potter and was very popular in the UK when she was a girl in the 1970s/80s
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It's like people being miffed at George Lucas for pretending he was the first person to do a sword-and-sorcery-style epic in space, like space opera wasn't a thing for *decades* before Star Wars came out and like he didn't make it after losing the Flash Gordon license
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