Random sentence I saw on The Comics Journal message board.

"I liked Harry Potter when it was called Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic."

Groan.

The premise of Harry Potter, in broad strokes -- and that is all I have to go with -- does not strike me as terribly original, and surely can be transferred to any story about a normal young boy who is uncovered to belong in a mystical world, and onto that. If RK Rowling made the formula work for her millions of readers, more power to her.

In the end, who cares?