Eva Ibbotson - The Secret of Platform 13 and Harry Potter

The Secret of Platform 13 and Harry Potter

See also: Harry Potter influences and analogues

Critics have observed similarities Ibbotson's "Platform 13" in The Secret of Platform 13 (1994) and J.K. Rowling's "Platform 9 3/4" in the Harry Potter books (from 1997), both located at King's Cross Station in London. The journalist Amanda Craig has written about the similarities: "Ibbotson would seem to have at least as good a case for claiming plagiarism as the American author currently suing J. K. Rowling, but unlike her, Ibbotson says she would 'like to shake her by the hand. I think we all borrow from each other as writers'."

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