AUTHOR: Mae Rapp

The 10 Best Quotes From The Fanfiction Who Must Not Be Named

The 10 Best Quotes From The Fanfiction Who Must Not Be Named

Mae Rapp

Harry Potter‘s birthday was, understandably, a big day in the literary world. The boy who lived turned 30. Whoopdidoo. Now, I’m not the biggest fan of Harry Potter. I loved it as a child, but got a little sick of the Slytherin merchandise overflowing the Hot Topic shelves during my teens. And now, at age 20, when anyone asks me what house I’m in or what my horcrux would be, I cringe just a little. What I am a fan of is the massive amounts of fanfiction that the Harry Potter heptalogy has spawned. Since the early 2000’s thousands upon …

Top Four Hogwarts Clones in Movies and TV

Top Four Hogwarts Clones in Movies and TV

Mae Rapp

There are countless blatant Harry Potter ripoffs, from Harry Potter and the Leopard-Walk-Up-To Dragon to the slightly less obvious Tanya Grotter and The Magical Double Bass. These books fall under the category of direct ripoffs that have managed to weave through every loophole that international copyright law provides, and there are hundreds of them. But this list focuses on the movies and shows that got it right; the ones might have borrowed a hammer from J.K. Rowling’s toolbox but came up with their own blueprints. These characters may attend a school suspiciously similar to Hogwarts, but their stories are, at the very least, …