Narnia and Harry Potter??

[echokilo]

Have watched The Voyage of the Dawn Treader this afternoon and am sure there are influences of CS Lewis in JKR's Harry Potter. Like when Lucy stands in front of the mirror and sees a reflection of Aslam who is not in the room with her (Mirror of Erised??) The dragon that Eustace turns into - and the similarity of Eustace to Dudley Dursely. Plus the need to trace the 7 swords relating to the 7 horcruxes in Potter ...... can anyone else draw any other comparisons, and has JKR ever admitted to these influences? TIA

[MarkRae]

Do a Google search for "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars"...

[echokilo]

Thanks Markrae - have done just that - very interesting, however, difficult for me to draw direct comparisons as not watched much Star Wars! Interesting though.

[bednobs]

plus imho its also like lotr

[Buenchico]

A relevant quote, perhaps?
>>>Rowling has never finished The Lord of the Rings. She hasn't even read all of C.S. Lewis' Narnia novels, which her books get compared to a lot. There's something about Lewis' sentimentality about children that gets on her nerves. "There comes a point where Susan, who was the older girl, is lost to Narnia because she becomes interested in lipstick. She's become irreligious basically because she found sex," Rowling says. "I have a big problem with that."<<<

Source:
http://www.time.com/t...171,1083935-1,00.html

Chris

PS: I hope that you enjoyed the film (otherwise you'll be blaming me for suggesting it!)

[Bambiagain]

If Buenchico's quote is correct, then JKR must have got at least as far as The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in her reading - I can't remember exactly when Susan was shown as "lost to Narnia" although that was a feature of The Last Battle and the reason she didn't go back there. Since she appeared in all the books before Dawn Treader JKR wouldn't have known that fact if she hadn't read that far. (Hence all the things mentioned by Echokilo could have been lifted from the book.) My personal view is that I loved the books as a child and if you didn't want to be swallowed up by the religious message it was quite possible to enjoy them as pure fiction.

[echokilo]

Loved the film Buenchico - even though now I can see it's not entirely true to the book, but then neither are the HP films!!!!

[Postdog]

Just a personal observation, as a kid I was aware of the various Narnia stories, but I wasn't aware of (or rather didn't care) about the order I read them.

[echokilo]

Have never read them but watching the film has inspired me to start and I agree Postdog from when I have seen it doesn't matter about the order really In fact there are even two suggested official reading orders anyway!!

[jno]

She's become irreligious basically because she found sex," Rowling says. "I have a big problem with that."

Actually, many people would think that extremely sensible.