[HPforGrownups] Re: Parallels in other's fiction to that of JKR.

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 192429

At 12:02 +0000 on 06/11/2013, John wrote about [HPforGrownups] Re: 
Parallels in other's fiction to that of:

>To pick up the point about The People being 'humanoid aliens' well 
>yes, technically I suppose they are, as they came here from another 
>planet that had died in a cosmic cataclysm, but they are also in 
>fact fully human. They don't just look like us, they can interbreed 
>with us 'natives'.
>
>There has been some conjecture elsewhere on other discussions I have 
>had that perhaps these two races, the Earthly and alien humans are 
>not simply a case of unbelievably close 'parallel evolution' but 
>that there was previously some form of contact, maybe a colonisation 
>or even Isaac Asimov style Galactic Empire made up of a human race 
>distributed amongst the stars. One that far back in pre-history 
>fractured, lost contact and lost it's high technology for some 
>reason. Being forced to start again separately the humans of Earth 
>in the main took the technological path, but on their world The 
>People took the magical one. Anyway it's a thought, and one possible 
>explanation. :o)

I would like to correct a misconception in this discussion. The 
People are NOT magical but just normal (as in SciFi terms) 
psionic/psychic power possessors. While you can use Clarke's Law to 
define the use of Psionic Power as magic, with the People they are 
just using an inherent ability as opposed to the Potter Wizards who 
while they have the ability to do magic must learn spells to 
direct/use that ability.