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Harry Potter and King Arthur - The Similarities

Similarity	Harry Potter	King Arthur
Trained under the eyes of a wise old wizard	Dumbledore	Merlin
Taken at a very young age to live with foster parents	Taken to live with the Dursleys	Raised by Sir Ector and his family
Two friends - a boy and a girl - who may have a thing for each other	Ron and Hermione	Sir Lancelot and Guinevere
Under death threats to prevent them from fulfilling their destiny	Life is frequently endangered by Lord Voldemort	People such as Lot of Orkney try to kill him to prevent him from becoming king
Pulls a sword out of a place they shouldn't be able to	Pulls Godric Gryffindor's sword out of the sorting hat	Arthur pulls the sword Excalibur out of the stone
Actor Richard Harris in both movies	Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies	King Arthur in "Camelot"
Lives commonly without knowledge of their special destiny from the past	Doesn't know he's a wizard until he's 11 years old	Doesn't know he's heir to the throne until he pulls the sword out of the stone
Once 'aware' of the their destiny, must begin rigorous training	Has to devote years of his life to learning spells at Hogwarts	Has to go through an academic schooling as well as training in the knightly arts
Special wooden cup with magical properties	Goblet of Fire	Holy Grail
Bloodline prejudices	Many people consider wizards and witches with muggle family to have dirty blood, meaning they are on a lower rung of society	The royals don't consider Arthur a king at first because they don't believe he has royal blood.
A special place that keeps them longing to go back	Wishes he was at Hogwarts when he's spending the summer at the Dursleys'	Longs to be back in Camelot when away on quests

March 29, 2006 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was named book of the year at the British Book Awards ceremony. J.K. Rowling was in attendance.

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