#especially considering she was an up and coming british fantasy novelist and pullman is another prominent british fantasy novelist so like

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it's wild how much the concept of dementors was just lifted wholecloth from the spectres in His Dark Materials. JKR essentially changed the name and said "yeah that's good it's mine now"

#in case anyone was wondering #the subtle knife was published in '97 #prisoner of azkaban in '99 #so not only was pullman first #but it is highly likely she could have been reading Subtle Knife around the time she was writing PoA #especially considering she was an up and coming british fantasy novelist and pullman is another prominent british fantasy novelist so like #it would make sense to read your contemporaries #js #jkr hate #hdm #his dark materials #live from the musain