Talk:Theodore Roosevelt vs Winston Churchill/@comment-71.75.137.231-20161215201155/@comment-24322797-20161216035409

you're looking for similarities though. percy jackson & the olympians is about a kid and his friends who are related to the actual Gods from pre-existing Greek mythology that go around doing greek mythology things. harry potter is about a kid and his friends who learn traditional wizardry magic and fight a reincarnated villain with a thousand different variables along the way. the fact that they both start with "a kid and his friends" and has magic somewhere down the road is about where it ends

also, HP 1 came out in 1997 vs PJO's 2005, the gap is pretty large there.

and even if you want to call it a "shameless cash-in," that doesn't destroy all its credit instantly. it's still an entirely seperate series thats gone on for quite a while and really only bares moderate similarities to HP in the origin story

also, divergent vs hunger games isnt comparable. divergent and hunger games are both YA dystopia novels where the oppressive government has divided the entire nation into multiple sectors that all have individual purposes, featuring emotionless badass teens and their detestable forced love interest that rise up against their governments and spearhead revolutions after finding out their different for some reason, that's a hell of a lot more connected then "kids with friends who find out their parents had some magic-ish connection"