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I saw somewhere that Diana Wynne Jones had been less than approving of Harry Potter, considering that Rowling had nicked her stuff. What was it though? What I think of as DWJ's motif—related parallel/alternate worlds—is absent from Harry Potter, and Harry's magic feels different, more codified.

Perhaps DWJ was reading the Draco Trilogy by mistake? She's really got a case there.

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[ankaret.livejournal.com]

She does occasionally seem to go in for scenes of Dursley-like home trauma, I suppose, particularly in Eight Days Of Luke, and several of the Chrestomanci books have 'rather awkward kids finding their magic' as a theme. Oh, and the main character in Dogsbody is called Sirius, and there's a youngest sister of boys called Gwinny in The Ogre Downstairs. ;) I can't for the life of me think of anything more concrete, though.

I never managed to get more than about three chapters into the Draco Trilogy before wandering off to do something else, so I can't comment about that.

[anstruther.livejournal.com]

I guess the Eight Days of Luke set-up is fairly similar to Harry's home situation, and I suppose you could argue there's some overlap with Witch Week? I have a vague (and probably false) recollection that DWJ was annoyed by some report that some of her earlier works echoed JKR's themes and said that if anything it was the other way round.