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Q&A Is my book too similar to Harry Potter? [closed]

The story takes place in a fictional country I created. There are 6 main characters, 3 girls and 3 boys. They are all "gifted" which are people with special abilities. There are 3 types of gifte...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Zeena Imam‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T09:15:31Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/37290
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Zeena Imam‭ · 2019-12-08T09:15:31Z (over 4 years ago)
The story takes place in a fictional country I created. There are 6 main characters, 3 girls and 3 boys. They are all "gifted" which are people with special abilities. There are 3 types of gifted, which have names. One can detect when you are lying, one can move objects with their minds, and one can control fire and water. They go to a day school for gifteds in their country.

You start learning and using your powers in the upper school which is 7th-12th grade. Which might be like Hogwarts since it's a school for wizards. The school also has math, science, history, and english. The characters learn about something called the book of destiny which basically the whole plot of this book is them trying to find it. Which is like the Philosophers stone.

This isn't final, but I am planning that when they find the book of destiny they go through this room and they have to complete a series of tasks that take them through different rooms until they ultimately end up finding it and destroying it themselves. Which kind of reminds me of the trap door.

There is a group of 3 sort of mean girls. There is also a mean boy who might make people think of Draco. They call normal people a name just like the wizards call them muggles. The characters are about a year older than Harry and his friends, but I plan on making it a series, and following them year by year until their last.

There are also many differences, but are they too similar? I worked so hard on building the world and everything and just realized. How can I make it less similar?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-06-28T10:12:16Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 10