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Monday, November 11, 2002

 

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Tanya Grotter: a Harry Potter Parody?
Mon Nov 11,12:44 PM ET
By Oliver Bullough

MOSCOW (Reuters) - They have so much in common: both are orphans, have strange marks on their faces, wield magical powers and battle an enemy too terrible to be named.

But uncannily parallel lives have not made Harry Potter (news - web sites) and Russian literary sensation Tanya Grotter friends -- far from it. Potter's publishers say Grotter's creator, Dmitry Yemets, is copying the British wizard and are considering legal action...

I'm all for the freedom to parody something. The question is, does Tanya Grotter actually lampoon HP in any way, shape, or form? I don't think it does, not that I've read TG, or any of the Harry Pothead... er... Potter books.
Duplication does not equal satirization.

posted by Steve 11/11/2002 07:49:00 PM

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