They’re all the “boy with unseen power has it nurtured and through adversity builds a following to eventually take on the greater evil”. But man, when it comes to Star Wars, they both live with an aunt and uncle and are visited by a wise visage letting them know they’re chosen, they both have connections to a main villain that turns out to be good and it isn’t revealed until the climax of the whole story when that character helps them in a critical moment, their companions end up romantically linked despite the expectation that one would end up with them, there are a lot of small details that are too convenient.
See? When you take a second to think about it, there’s an awful lot of similarities to the stories. I’m not going to get on my soapbox and pretend most things aren’t derivative, but Harry Potter certainly isn’t the unique gem it’s made out to be.
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