Here’s an interesting thought: the upcoming X-Men: First Class, which will be about the early days of Professor X’s School for Gifted Youngsters, is using Harry Potter for inspiration.

I never made the connection, but they are both about schools full of teens with special powers that regular folks don’t know about.  Interesting.

Lauren Shuler Donner, producer of all X-Men films, recently talked about the parallels to Empire:

Harry Potter is a bit of a role model for us, absolutely. But we want it to be like the recent, darker Potters. It should not be a kiddie movie - we’re in the X-Men world so you can’t suddenly change the tone. The First Class comics are really fun - they’re funnier than any other comics I’ve read. Basically in each one the kids are fighting strange villains, sometimes it’s aliens, sometimes it’s monsters. I want to get a flavour of that world

Occasionally the kids will be in class, but more often they’ll be off on adventures. Which Professor X isn’t too happy about!

There’s nothing more interesting than a bad kid, and this is full of naughty children. Cyclops, for example - he’s a tough kid that bobbed from foster home to foster home, until he ends up at the school and becomes the leader.

Cyclops as Harry?  Well, they both wear glasses.