Harry Potter is just a Buffy Redux
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6 July 2009
Brian Lynch showed us that 30 Rock is a rip-off of the Muppets,
but the Tina Fey comedy is not the only show with bizarre parallels to another.
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels and Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, both released the same year, are eerily similar. The parallels cannot be intentional, but let me present the evidence and you can be the judge.
What follows is a comparison of several major and minor characters in
both the novels and the series describing the roles they play. Could so much similarity be coincidence?
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