Amanita
Maester
Hello everyone,
I didn't have the time to do much actual fiction writing recently but I've been playing with a story idea involving a secret, independently governed magical society in the real world, real world Germany actually.
Now I'm wondering if this is worth spending more time on or if the setting alone makes it something akin to plagiarism of Harry Potter and other existing stuff.
I haven't done much of the world-building yet but I already know that I won't have children of non-magical people becoming magical which was one of the main conflict points in HP. (Mother needs to be magical.)
The plot itself is about a young magical girl who has been living in hiding with her mother being taught magic by her and attending an ordinary school. Later, she is forced by the totalitarian regime of the magical society to take part in the official schooling system. She is subjected to the propaganda of the regime, learns their style of magic and doesn't really understand why her mother is so afraid of them at first. Then she learns what they're doing to their enemies secretely and what her mother who used to fight the regime went through. She gets to know more enemies of the regime and both mother and daughter join a resistance organisation. How successful they will be, I haven't decided yet.
I didn't have the time to do much actual fiction writing recently but I've been playing with a story idea involving a secret, independently governed magical society in the real world, real world Germany actually.
Now I'm wondering if this is worth spending more time on or if the setting alone makes it something akin to plagiarism of Harry Potter and other existing stuff.
I haven't done much of the world-building yet but I already know that I won't have children of non-magical people becoming magical which was one of the main conflict points in HP. (Mother needs to be magical.)
The plot itself is about a young magical girl who has been living in hiding with her mother being taught magic by her and attending an ordinary school. Later, she is forced by the totalitarian regime of the magical society to take part in the official schooling system. She is subjected to the propaganda of the regime, learns their style of magic and doesn't really understand why her mother is so afraid of them at first. Then she learns what they're doing to their enemies secretely and what her mother who used to fight the regime went through. She gets to know more enemies of the regime and both mother and daughter join a resistance organisation. How successful they will be, I haven't decided yet.
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