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** While we're on the subject, the 1986 horror movie ''Troll'' -- no connection to ''[[Troll 2]]'' -- contains a young boy named Harry Potter (played by Noah "[[The Neverending Story (film)|Atreyu]]" Hathaway) who enters a world of magic, befriends a witch, and fights a troll. This is [[Name's the Same|probably a coincidence]], though. Rowling has explicitly said as much (regardless of what you may have heard) and stranger coincidences of exactly the same sort have happened. Excellent further reading on the matter would be the story behind the name "Eleanor Rigby" in ''The Beatles Anthology''.
** An isolated castle containing a magic school, with a forest nearby? A protagonist who has no prior knowledge of the magical world? A rival who comes from a leading magical family? A hook-nosed Potions teacher who favours the rival and despises the protagonist? A kindly, grey-haired Head who is fond of the protagonist? Classes in Charms and broomstick riding? Yep, that's Jill Murphy's ''[[The Worst Witch]]'', six volumes published 1974, '80, '82, '93, 2005, 2007.
** Many of Rowling's elements also appear in Eleanor Estes' ''[[The Witch Family]]'', first published in 1960, and especially in [[Ursula K.
** There actually are people who think Rowling invented house elves, hippogriffs, or the concept of familiars.
*** There are doubtless people as well who think that [[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]] invented hippogryphs. They go back at least as far as the early sixteenth century. See (ironically enough) the [[Newer Than They Think]] page for more on this.
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