Hi Guys,

I don't know if this is the correct place to ask this and if not, please refer me to the correct subject.

I was asked to give a lecture on the topic "What Harry Potter embraced from magic and what our community embraced (and created) inspired from Harry Potter".

I mean, I guess that J.K Rowling watched some magicians back then. Do you think you can trace magic in the book(s) that were inspired from ordinary tricks she saw? or everything in the book was inspired from the occult?

And what about the reverse question? What our community invented after (or in tribute) to the Harry Potter series?

Many thanks in advance for your thoughts.

I'm amazed no one is interested in this .. I am...

There is a lot of fighting in Harry Potter. There is no fighting in the performance art of magic.
Which is a major difference although rumour has it that all the fighting goes on behind closed doors. Some even play dirty I heard...

What effects are presented in Harry Potter:
animation, telekinesis, telepathy, future predictions, clairvoyance, teleportation, levitation.
I think the story embraced a lot of old tales in conjuring and less the actual current performance art. A main part seems to be controlling objects, levitation type effects and mentalism effects such as extracting memories, controlling minds and telepathy.

What did we adapt from that series:
Lately I saw those fireball flashpaper shooting wand reels on social media which seems quite funny...
Apart from that levitation and animation effects have been around before, but Xavier Mortimer seems to portrait that style of magic to the core.

I think the main reason for not many resemblances within both worlds is the motivation of the characters. In the fictional story it is about surviving life and death situation. Living (mostly)
in a closed society where special abilities are not that special. Whereas in the performance art it is about showing the skills not utilizing it.