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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3656281" data-attributes="member: 20741">Quite so. But I doubt it would do as well.There are a number of reasons why Potter is the best seller it is. There are engaging characters, of course, and while Rowling is merely a competent writer, she is a very good story teller.But above all, why the Potter books are pure gold is because they have within them the seed that sets all great fantasy apart from the masses:  the desperate wish that the world the author conceives could be true.The entire idea of boarding school in a castle of Wizardry existing alongside our real world is pure gold; that's the premise upon which Rowling made a billion dollars. It is an utterly brilliant concept.  True - she was a good enough author to make it all work - but I think there are hundreds of other authors who could have done that.What made it all so brilliant and tied it together was the central premise of Hogwarts.  And that's all hers.So while the Wizarding World is enchanting, what makes it sell more $$ worth of novels in a day than the biggest blockbuster can do in a weekend is the premise of Eton meets Merlin. If we come back to this world someday - then Hogwarts has to have a place in it.</blockquote>