The resemblence is because Harry Potter draws from the same old fiction as modern magical technology. "...telepathy, divination, energy-work, necromancy, geomancy and time travel..." are hardly new ideas. This author shouldn't presume that fictional literature drawing from any of those topics are borrowing from her field of expertise. It's instead drawing from years of fictional tradition. It is not Rowling's fault if their science so closely resembles fiction.
An analogous situation would be if aliens charged sci-fi authors with specism for constantly representing them as creepy war-mongering bugs.
An analogous situation would be if aliens charged sci-fi authors with specism for constantly representing them as creepy war-mongering bugs.Don't laugh. You oughta read some of the Star Trek lists and message boards regarding Enterprise. "Why are humans always depicted as the ones with all the answers? Why are the aliens always mean, and humans always virtuous?"
Ack. At least we can say "where no man has gone before" again, instead of no one from Next Generation. But there are those who complain....