[HPforGrownups] Re: Connections (HP and Star Wars)

[Craig Frizzell]

No: HPFGUIDX 40811

tmarends wrote,
> Anyone else notice the parallels between Harry Potter and Star Wars?

I first thought this after Harry et. al. get caught in the devil's snare
while going after the Sorceror's Stone. (Think the trash compactor scene
from Star Wars Ep. 4) (The movie version actually illustrates this one
more).

And I'm sure it's been said, but GoF is definitely the Empire Strikes Back.
Actually, when describing the cultural phenomena that is HP I often refer to
Star Wars.

Besides all that, just wanted to introduce myself - I just discovered this
list existed yesterday while searching for articles about HP and the adults
who read him.  I'm 21 and about to start graduate school to study Political
Science.  I held off for a year after a friend of mine started pestering to
read HP.  Then I got dragged to the discount theater to see the movie; after
that I read all 4 books and saw the movie twice in the span of a week.
(see, movies can be good; they turned *me* onto the books at least).  Now I
pester all my other friends to read it (one friend left my apartment last
night with the first two, and and my grandmother just got #1 as a birthday
present).

Anyway, Hi!

Craig