> Sound familiar? All Rowling really changes from that basic formula is to set it in a wizarding school instead of a wizard school, have the sub-plots all tie in with the Voldemort's-coming-back theme, and change the sport to Quidditch. At its core, it's just another boarding school story.
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> Zarniwoop

Yeah, that's one of the things I like about the Potter books. I grew up reading things like that. Most of them were pretty appalling. Well ... all of them, really. But British boarding school stories seemed incredibly weird and cool and exotic to me when I was about ten years old.

Brunnen-"cold baths, cricket and Empire"G