I was discussion fantasy with a co-worker the other day when I mentioned that Harry Potter fell in the fantasy genre. He admitted that he disagreed, so I thought I'd make a fun, easy-to-use, "you know when" kind of list. How do you know that the story in question (book, movie, et cetera) is fantasy?
Magic Man Done It - Does the story in question contain sorceress, wizards, witches, and warlocks? Or, more generally, do certain people have meta-physical magical powers? Do they travel along family lines? This is typically a diagnostic criteria of fantasy in general. So called ...
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