J.K.Rowling & The Legend of Rah and the Muggles (rambly)

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Anonymous wrote:
> Isn't it disappointing to find out that J.K.Rowling did not come up 
> with the idea of Harry Potter but <snip> she took the ideas from 
Stouffer? J.K. Rowling 
> is taking all the credit for characters she did not even 'make'!

Firstly I hope that whoever wrote that is being sarcastic, because 
it's certainly not true. Nancy Stouffer (which, if I'm pronouncing it 
correctly, sounds amusingly like Stuff Her) and JKR do have very 
minor elements of similarity in their books, but there's probably 
similarites between 'Great Expectations' and 'Heart Of Darkness' if 
you look hard enough! 

I completely agree that it's Stuff-Her ripping off our JK - if you 
want evidence, look at Stuff-Her's 'original' choice of author name 
which can be found all over her website, realmuggles.com: N. K. 
Stouffer. Gee... do two initials followed by the last name sound like 
they've been borrowed from another prominent writer whom Stuff-Her is 
closely associated to? Not that I'm saying JKR made up this 
convention, btw, but it's certainly becoming a lot more prominent.

As with the word Muggles, I think that Terry Pratchett summed it up 
in his Discworld books. I'm not sure which one it was, but it had 
Rincewind in it... it might have been Interesting Times. Anyway, 
Terry says something to the effect of: there's on so many syllables 
in our language. So unless Stuff-Her is claiming to have invented the 
syllables 'mug' and 'gle', she's just imagining things... althought 
she DID claim to have invented the word 'nimbus' a while back, didn't 
she?

Anyway, if you've read this far, you have an amazingly good attention 
span :)
--> Sam