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Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005)
Harry Potter is Tom Brown
26 November 2005 - 0 out of 4 users found this review helpful.
This is an excellent BBC adaptation of "Tom Brown's School Days" from which Rowling got the Harry Potter setup.
Here Hogwarts is Rugby, so no girls and no Ginny or Hermione, but there are a Ron and a Neville. Dumbledore is (the real) Dr. Arnold. Malfoy is Flashman (although Malfoy hasn't been a rapist or murderer, yet, perhaps). Flashman also has two disagreeable sycophants and is protected by his powerful father, a principal donor to Rugby. And, of course, Quidditch is Rugby football.
There is no magic, of course, and Tom Brown has a conventional father, but the development of Tom's character parallels that of Harry.
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