J.K.Rowling & The Legend of Rah and the Muggles
bbennett at joymail.com
bbennett at joymail.com
Fri Mar 16 17:35:26 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 14478
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., my_email_1 at y... wrote:
<clip of an unsigned email that appears to be from the Stouffer camp>
> We would all be very stupid to assume that this is a coincidence.
>How can Rowling make up a story about sitting in a train and making
>up the characters, while she took the ideas from Stouffer? J.K.
>Rowling is taking all the credit for characters she did not
>even 'make'!
You are welcome to assume your own stupidity, but please do not do it
on my behalf. If anything, I find it rather insulting that I'm asked
to agree that similarities in two different works of literature
automatically equal plagerism. There are only so many unique names
and terms that can be conceived of, and I don't find it a stretch to
believe that two original books might have things in common, like the
very common names Larry/Harry, Lily/Lilli, or a brown-haired boy with
round glasses/a black haired boy with round glasses. I *do* find it
rather unbelieveable that Stouffer claims to have created a "Keeper"
of anything - this appears so many times in literature and in movies.
Why in the world would Rowling choose to steal these few and not-
particularly original aspects of Stouffer's books, when she's
obviously proved she has more than sufficient imagination of her own?
Stouffer wrote a little book that she did rather well with - good for
her. But the facts she's presented do not support her claims.
B (who may now be fired from her post as Good Will Ambassador of the
Good Ship R/H, but who really detests condescending, unsigned posts)
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