Potter is more of a rip off of Lord of the Rings imo.
I’ve always had it pegged as a rip off of James and the Giant Peach, tbh. At the very least, there’s a ton Rowling drew from Roald Dahl (including the raging bigotry).
I’ve also heard her accused of ripping off Earthsea.
Orphan who has to stop a once defeated but now returning dark lord, via destroying object(s) that contain his soul, with the help of a wizard and companions, all while evading the evil followers of the dark lord.
This is 90% of D&D games, though. Voldemort is a classic Lich with a twist. She could have written a first draft of this book in high school using the 2e TSR book.
It’s so easy to claim she’s plagiarized the material because the whole book is so comically generic.
Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
And remember Troll 1 where a dorky, bespectacled, young boy, with messy brown hair, is thrown into a parallel world of magic, who happens to be named Harry Potter