Is there room for more books about witches, magic, etc?

[mamaweasley]

What do you think? It seems like the Harry Potter books set a pretty high standard. Do you think all books about magic will be compared to the HP books? Will people look at these books as "copy cats"?
I am a writer, I haven't had anything published but long before I began reading the HP books I wrote about witchcraft and magic, these are things I have always been interested in. But now I worry if I were to actually finish a story like this people would view it as fan-fic or just plain copy cat. Anyway, so the questions stands: is there room for more stories of this nature out there?

[the_roof_is_leaking]

People will always want to read about magic and stuff, but unfortunately there'll also be people who will claim something similar is a rip-off.
There's even people who diss J.K Rolwing - saying she stole her ideas from Lord of the rings and even various other things.
But even if someone grew up with no books or TV and wrote something, someone somewhere would be able to find something it is similar too and accuse them of copying.

There will be some people who'll never 'let go' of Harry Potter as their number one book - some out of stubborness and not willing to give another book a chance, and some will genuinely just not find a book to overtake Harry Potter.

[DucksRMagical]

I think there is room for more magic books. I might read them. I really don't read much fantasy. Harry Potter is the first books about magic I've really read. But if something struck me as interesting, I'd read it. Harry Potter is definitely my favorite series of books, but that doesn't mean I won't read other books. I'm not sure another book would beat HP for my favorite book, but I would still read other books.

[Scellanis]

Peaple always write about magic and always will, I mean for long enough everybody leapt about claiming JK Rowling had copied Tolkien and that Dumbledore was based on Gandalf....

To be honest I suspect most books would still get compared to his rather than hers in most cases.

If somebody writes a book that is good enough it'll survive no matter what its compared to, take Eragon, thats new, it contains magic and dragons and its managed to be popular and there are still Terry Pratchett and Terry Brooks that always contain magic and were writing before and during Rowling's time and will continue afterwards, there will always be room for new books.

Just because she did it doesn't mean noone else can otherwise we wouldn't even have hers as everything would have stopped with Lord of the Rings, he is meant to be the basis of all modern fantasy according to some people and he does seem to have covered most everything you can think of.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

There will always be room for new fantasy. There will always be room for fantasy. And just when you think they've done it all, they'll be a new one.

Tolkien pretty much covered all bases when he created his world, he gave it authenticity with its historical background.

JK Rowling did something quite different, merging her fantasy world with reality extremely effectively.

There will always be more books to write in all genres, because really people read books for the storylines and characters, and they don't run out. And although new innovations in fantasy maaay dry up, there will always be new characters and storylines to explore.

The magic is only one of the reasons we read them..

[Scellanis]

Lots of other people have merged fantasy with the modern world, Terry Brooks, C S Lewis, the current book of the season...definately is room for more books after J K Rowling.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

I meant quite different to Tolkien. I think in a way as time goes by people's tastes in regard to fantasy change... in that they might prefer different sorts at different times. It's just such a wide genre, so much can be included under its banner.

[Scarlet Lioness]

I agree with Phoenix and Scellanis, there's still room for way nore Fantasy, it can be Fantasy with no magic I guess or a different kind of Magic as we see in LotR, Narnia and in Eragon even...

Although we can agree that there can never be another Harry Potter series, but Fantasy is such an open genre..there's nothing stopping anyone from making up a new Fantasy world that everyone will love.

[GodrictheGriffon]

Of course. But will everyone love it as much as Harry Potter's world? I doubt.