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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Again, no one is saying that Rowling plagiarized anyone else to a degree that would actually be legally actionable (and plenty of people have ripped off Harry Potter in turn, that's fine, that's how genre writing works, as Gaiman points out)
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What is annoying is JKR's steadfast refusal to ever acknowledge any other writers or give them so much as a public "thank you", which is all Jill Murphy said she's asking for
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