God, poor Jill Murphy. I reread the first Worst Witch book a while ago, because six-year-old me had loved it. It was *shocking* how much Rowling stole from it.
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Replying to @vashti @arthur_affect and
So would you enlighten me please what are the (probably better) books JK copied, so I can read the good stuff? 8D
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Replying to @Pyctsi @AkinasPotpourri and
While I'm handing our suggestions... Also check out Diane Duane's Young Wizards series.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rising-Sequence-Collection-Cooper-Silver/dp/1782959416 …
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Replying to @Pyctsi @AkinasPotpourri and
The link you posted was to Susan Cooper (who I'd recommend), not Diane Duane (who I'd also recommend). There's 2 versions of
@dduane's older books(first is from 1983), she updated them for modern kids. The originals are in bookstores, she sells the revised versions online.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @TiaRachel @Pyctsi and
🫖 ☕️ Retweeted Diane Duane
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Diane DuaneVerified account @dduaneOn#sale@EbooksDirect: the New Millennium Editions of the#YoungWizards series. Latinx wizards, Black wizards, gay wizards...inclusiveness & diversity baked in since 1983! 9-vol sets, $2-ish per volume: grab one & find out what the excitement's about! http://bit.ly/YWNMESET pic.twitter.com/aCjvMjUQBC2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @TiaRachel @Pyctsi and
Have read many of the others mentioned & this is one of my faves (even though Rowling probably lifted less from this series). I often recommend as a wizarding alternative for people who just can’t with JK anymore. It’s far better writing too.
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Replying to @albyselkie @TiaRachel and
TBH, it's unlikely that R lifted anything much from these, even though the first four books had UK editions in the early 90s. They literally have no common ground except that the protagonists are young wizards.
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Replying to @dduane @albyselkie and
(I could also whisper plaintively, "Also, 'wizarding' is something they do in that other universe. Over here we call it 'errantry'. Can we use that instead...?" ...But I haven't had my tea yet.)
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Replying to @dduane @albyselkie and
I think the real takeaway here is that the whole general concept of "young wizards being trained in magic as their coming-of-age story" was a large and healthy genre long before the first Harry Potter book came out
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And one of the annoying things about JKR's footprint on culture was people giving her all this credit for creating this genre (or, what's actually kind of more insulting, "rescuing it from obscurity" or "saving it from collapse")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dduane and
It's a bit similar to people who say that George Lucas *create the concept* of "science fantasy" with Star Wars, like no one else did swords and martial arts and epic prophecies and quests in a spaceships-and-lasers setting before he thought of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dduane and
Or -- again, this is actually more insulting -- saying he "redeemed" that genre, that all the people who did it before him did cheesy and corny "space opera" but Star Wars was somehow the first one that was actually good
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