They must be identical.” Setting aside for a moment that the characters in question have very different personalities, and Grover isn’t even human. “Harry Potter has two friends, a boy and a girl. Anyone remember the wardrobe into Narnia? Or the phantom tollbooth? All of these stem from mythology, and the idea of a secret entrance that led into the Underworld. “Harry Potter has Platform 9 3/4 Percy Jackson has the 600th floor of the Empire State Building which leads to Mount Olympus, so this idea must’ve been taken from Potter.” The idea of a magical gateway to another land wasn’t invented in the Harry Potter series. Many other elements of Percy Jackson are similar to Harry Potter because the novels draw from the same well of folklore and mythology. Actually, that dog is several thousand years older than Fluffy. Riordan obviously stole that from Fluffy in Harry Potter.” Umm. My favorite comment: One adult looked at the American cover of the book, which features a picture of Cerberus, and said, “Look, a three-headed dog.
I wanted to write a book that would appeal to them for the same reasons that Harry Potter appealed to them.īut are some elements of Percy Jackson taken from Harry Potter? I’m always amused by comments like that, because it’s not that simple. My students would read The Sorcerer’s Stone fourteen times before they’d pick up another book, because they said, “Nothing else is this good.” When I set out to write down the Percy Jackson story, which had started as a bedtime story for my son, I was mindful of what my students had been telling me. The books were humorous, adventurous, fantastical, and mysterious all at the same time. Something about these books struck a chord with kids. I was amazed at the effect Harry Potter had in my own classroom.
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I love Rowling’s books, and I am grateful for the impact they’ve had on young readers and on the revitalization of children’s publishing.Īnd so to the question: Did the Harry Potter series influence Percy Jackson? In many ways, of course it did.
After all, Harry Potter is the most successful and high-profile young adult fantasy series of all time. When I wrote The Lightning Thief, I knew comparisons to Harry Potter would be inevitable.
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