Just did a google search with the keywords "similarities between Harry Potter and Young Sherlock Holmes" and sure enough other people have noticed it too...

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...and, apparently Christopher Columbus recently admitted that he heavily borrowed from Young Sherlock Holmes in the way he directed the first two Harry Potter movies.

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Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter film adaptations, has cited the 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes, which he wrote, as an influence in his direction for those films. "That was sort of a predecessor to this movie, in a sense", he told the BBC in 2001, "It was about two young boys and a girl in a British boarding school who had to fight a supernatural force." Scenes from Young Sherlock Holmes were subsequently used to cast the first Harry Potter film. On 3 January 2010, Irish journalist Declan Lynch (writing in The Sunday Independent) stated that "there's more than a hint of young Sherlock evident in Harry".

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Posted by mizzoukills

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Posted on 9/8/15 at 12:50 pm to mizzoukills

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So your title says JK Rowling rips off some 1985 movie then in your post you link the similarities of the movie and the first Harry Potter Movie then elaborate how Chris Columbus was the director/producer link. Hmmmmm I'm still wondering how JK Rowling wrote a 7 book best seller and created a unique, deep, and rich magical world yet because the first movie is similar to this 85 Sherlock and that both involved Columbus, her entire literary and I'll say it again, literary works are a rip off?

Yeah, you didn't read the last few paragraphs. JK Rowling, not Chris Columbus, developed the characters and their appearances as well as Hogwarts, professors, cults, dinner scenes, etc.

She would be the one who plagiarized her story from a mid 1980s movie.

Chris Columbus can be forgiven for using one of his own original stories as inspiration for the style and direction of the first two Harry Potter movies.

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Posted by WalkingTurtles

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Posted on 9/8/15 at 12:51 pm to mizzoukills

So your title says JK Rowling rips off some 1985 movie then in your post you link the similarities of the movie and the first Harry Potter Movie then elaborate how Chris Columbus was the director/producer link. Hmmmmm I'm still wondering how JK Rowling wrote a 7 book best seller and created a unique, deep, and rich magical world yet because the first movie is similar to this 85 Sherlock and that both involved Columbus, her entire literary and I'll say it again, literary works are a rip off?

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Posted by DukeSilver

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Posted on 9/8/15 at 6:58 pm to mizzoukills

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Just did a google search with the keywords "similarities between Harry Potter and Young Sherlock Holmes" and sure enough other people have noticed it too...

I like how you present it as if you just had this original idea and did all this research into it, then afterwards googled to see if anyone else agreed.

Lol this shite has been posted before and is all over the internet, you didnt come up with shite. You plagarized countless other sources on the internet that discuss this idea and passed it off as your own.

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