Just a question....

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Lara:
> But I do not see the parallel with the Nazgul and the Dementors. 

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I agree. I don't see much of a connection between Lord of the Rings 
and Harry Potter. They both involve wizards and good and evil and all 
that, but I think they're two completely different stories. 

However, I recently finished Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, and 
I thought there were several similarities there. For example, deamons 
and patronuses both take on a form that corresponds to the person's 
personality and then protect the person they came from, and spectres 
and dementors both suck the consciousness out of people, with similar 
effects. Well, maybe it doesn't go much further than that, but I 
thought it was interesting. 

I'm cautious when it comes to comparing contemporary authors because 
I don't want to imply one gets ideas from another, but it is 
conceivable that another author's work would influence JKR in the 
teensiest of ways. That's what good writing does to us all.

Elli