"It would be nice, I suppose, if people would say thank you. But you have to be gracious."
This blog post covers some of the similarities. That the school in WW was founded by someone called Hermione makes it seem pretty clear to me that there’s an influence there. It’s just extremely JK Rowling that she wouldn’t ever acknowledge that, as presumably it’d be a threat to her brand, etc.
A massive amount of the HP universe was ripped off from Worst Witch by Jill Murphy, too. Rowling is truly awful by all measures.
Is that true or is it more along the lines of Kimba and Lion King?
To quote Jill Murphy herself when asked about HP:
This blog post covers some of the similarities. That the school in WW was founded by someone called Hermione makes it seem pretty clear to me that there’s an influence there. It’s just extremely JK Rowling that she wouldn’t ever acknowledge that, as presumably it’d be a threat to her brand, etc.
Lion King is shamefully close to Kimba The White Lion.
YMS has a really good video about how any similarities are probably coincidences.