Wizard's hall Book

Yes, Jane Yolen's 1991 children's fantasy novel Wizard's Hall does indeed feel a bit like J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (or rather, I should instead point out that Wizard's Hall and the Harry Potter series are somewhat alike in their superficialities, in their general set-ups), but definitely and in my opinion NOT IN ANY MANNER with enough similarities for Jane Yolen to have any reason whatsoever to even remotely accuse J.K. Rowling of actual plagiarism, of actively having copied large chunks of text from her Wizard's Hall.

For honestly, truly and after now having read both the Harry Potter novels and Wizard's Hall, the former are all much more in-depth and as such also considerably more interestingly and engagingly penned than Wizard's Hall (which really does for the most part remain rather tediously on the surface so to speak and also has none of the intricate world and word building as well as very little of the humour and delightful irony that J.K. Rowling makes such ample and entertaining use of in her novels about Harry Potter and his friends, with even the main protagonist in Wizard's Hall, with even Henry Thornmallow not reading so much like Harry Potter but more akin if I actually do want to find a link to Neville Longbottom). Therefore only three and rather unconvincing stars for Wizard's Hall (for a decent enough but ultimately still rather unspectacular, even mildly disappointing story) albeit that I have indeed now lowered my general rating to but two starts, because well, I do personally feel both more than a bit annoyed at and frustrated by Jane Yolen's pedestrian and silly attempts of trying to accuse J.K. Rowling of plagiarism (and indeed, this sure to and for me also does tend to sound like either a case of sour grapes or Jane Yolen trying to make publicity for her obviously not as popular Wizard's Hall and which I certainly do find at best rather childish).