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Hah. Rowling obviously is a little behind the 8 ball when it comes to this.l It could be very easily claimed that ROwling ripped off author Jill Murphy's phenomenally successful Worst Witch series, first published in 1974.
The story goes as such: dark haired young person of impressive magical heritage raised by non magical people goes to magic school (a stone castle atop a mountain surrounded by a forest) turns out to be very talented, however has a tendency to get into trouble, has a disregard for school rules and causes things to happen unintentionally. This person has two friends, one of whom is very smart, the other is a prankster who often gets them into trouble with their temper. They are antagonised by the rich, snobbish, stuck up vindictive blonde classmate and their bumbling sidekick. They are supported by the potions teacher, who also gives them grief. The trios misbehaviour is looked upon with fond tolerance and amusement by the head of the school who indulges them. This head of school has a sybling/twin who is opposite of them. The trio have many adventures and face off against the evil arch enemy, who plots to take over the school and achieve power with a coven of chosen other magical people...
hmmmmm the similarities are such that if we are going to nitpick like rowling then she could very well be sued as well!
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