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Harry Potter plagiarism lawsuit could be billion-dollar case, says claimant | JK Rowling | The Guardian
Why do people say that J.K. Rowling copied The Lord of the Rings when the high fantasy genre itself is a big old copy and paste of The Lord Of The Rings? -
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