There was this show on the abc called the worst witch. I thought it was a Harry Potter clone. but htem i did some reseach on the series and found that the books that the worst witch tv series were based on were written in the 1970's.
so I am wondering if JK Rowling borrowed any of her ideas from the worst witch series.
2007-05-07 15:31:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Being a uni student . the importance of attributing the souce of your ideas is constanlly stressed. by rip off i mean not atributing ideas correcty. other Authors I have read have acknowledge ment sections at the front of there books.
2007-05-07 15:47:47 · update #1
There are interesting similarities between the Worst Witch series and Harry Potter. Harry and Mildred; Ron and Enid; Hermione and Maud even the fact that they are both going to schools of magic. there is the protective head masters scenario and the teacher that hates the main character even but when you read the tone and depth of the different books they are ... well ... very different. I believe that JK Rowling has been very forthright about acknowledging some broad ideas came from history, myth and literature but did not mention those books in particular. I think it would make a great paper for a Children's Lit class.
2007-05-07 16:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by fisherworld75 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The Worst Witch
2016-11-05 11:08:41 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, I looked at the similarities between the "Harry Potter" series and "The Worst Witch" series and was surprised. I am an avid "Harry Potter" fan and love both the books and the movies, yet a lot of authors form their own ideas for their works from their inspirations. I don't know if J.K. Rowling copied the "The Worst Witch" series and made a few changes here and there, or she was simply inspired by the series. Or, did not know about the series at all. But if she did, then that would be a terrible deceit.
2007-05-07 15:46:16 · answer #3 · answered by Ash 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I've seen both, and other than the fact that both are set at a school for witchcraft, there is really no point you can call a rip-off:
1. All girl school vs coed school.
2. The magic taught is different.
3. Major character is well meaning but inept vs main character precociously strong.
4. Worst Witch is simply episodic, with little connection between episode vs Harry Potter with a well-defined back story and plot arc.
Of course there are some elements in common, the tough teacher, the good friends, the enemy in the class, etc., but these are common the the whole genre of boarding school lit. anyway.
2007-05-08 01:28:56 · answer #4 · answered by WolverLini 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Was Mildred an orphan who had to grow up with relatives who hated her?
I know Miss Cackle has an evil twin sister but did she murder Mildred's parents when she was one years old?
The castle school
Didn't Mildred think Cackle's Academy was like a prison?
Harry in the second book said Hogwarts is my home.
The characters in The Worst Witch have witchy names Mildred's surname is Hubble. Then we have Cackle and Hardbroom.
2016-05-10 09:43:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really doubt that. If the original author and/or publisher had any thought that Ms. Rowling had snitched any major ideas from the 'Worst Witch' series, they would have been in litigation long since. I don't know much about the WW series, but it seems to be totally different from Harry Potter.
2007-05-07 15:42:46 · answer #6 · answered by JelliclePat 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Actually I think Harry Potter is a pastiche - using elements from a lot of sources. It isnt exactly copied from any one source, but it uses a lot of different sources. From the sound of it, The Worst Witch was used perhaps more than other sources. Pax - C.
2007-05-07 15:48:52 · answer #7 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The thing about literature is that it's always played off of something else--whether it be oral tradition, other books, etc.-
only that something is added from the author themself to make it their own.
It's not necessarily a 'ripoff' as it is a new interpretation revealed through her(JKR) mind's eye.
2007-05-07 15:44:50 · answer #8 · answered by vborealis 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
A college student? You can barely spell. What college? If, indeed, you are a college student, then you would know about artistic license, you would know that there are no new words and phrases and no one is going to acknowledge every last word they use. You would also know that thousand of books are written each year, and a children's fantasy book is hardly one to acknowledge contributions from as far back as Plato or the Brothers Grimm. Was the Worst Witch totally original? Did the author make note of any ideas that they may have used? I doubt it.
By they way, by the time a person gets to be a college student they know spell check and the difference between THERE and THEIR. Your contention is invalid.
2007-05-08 03:32:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 8⤋
JK Rowling copied Roman and Greek Myths, Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, and a ton of other things.
To say that it's a rip of of Worst Witch series would be wrong, it's a rip off of everything.
But then again, what isn't a rip off of anything else...
2007-05-07 15:37:44 · answer #10 · answered by summahhh! 4 · 6⤊ 5⤋