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This is an "Alternate Reality Docu-Soap Drama Game Show" about a school of teen-aged witches. Their hopes, their dreams, their angst...their attempts to learn magickal secrets.
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Wasn't there another British version of this show? Either that, or it's just Harry Potter reincarnated.
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The first "school for young witches" movie (British, I think) was made before Rowling began writing, and Rowling began writing stories in her very early elementary school years.
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"Gifted Young people go off to special school to learn how to do incredible things" is one of the oldest stories in all of fiction.
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I don't know what came before it, but there was the British 'Worst Witch' movie and a TV series based on the books by Jill Murphy back in the 80s. The story was about an unsuccessful kid called Mildred Hubble who went to witch school - and is often credited as one of Rowling's inspirations.
I remember the books being really good when I read them (I was 5 at the time, though).
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Well, I'm sure that's not exactly a unique idea. After all, many of those ideas date back to legend.
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Bella, I remember "Worst Witch"; I think it was aired on the Disney channel or something. It was really cute!
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