Recommended reading linked to Harry Potter .

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  Can anyone recommend any books, poems or novels with character names
or similarities to the Harry Potter books?

  My question comes from a chance purchase at a garage sale of a novel
titled The Mayor Of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy. As I was reading I
found a lot of similarities with the Harry Potter books.

  The town of Casterbridge and Hogesmeade are similar. Both have two
main bars. Hogesmeade has The Three Broomsticks and The Hogs Head.
Casterbridge has the Three Mariners and Peter's finger!

  In chapter twenty not five lines apart are two words (in the same
paragraph), dumbledores and hagrid. There are many more similarities
but it would take up too much space.

  By the way, this is not a knock against J.K.. I love her writing.
Even Chaucer and Shakespeare can have some of their works traced back
to other writers. It is how you tell the story that makes it so great.
Like Homer's Illiad.

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