Once you become a fan of Harry Potter series, it is only natural to leaf through any other books from the fantasy genre that comes your way. On the more, if the second series that comes into your hand is the Twilight series, the interest all the more builds. However after these dives into the fantasy world, a reading of Eragon might take you back to the world of literature.
The gist of the two books can be summarized as this-a peasant boy finds the dragon egg, the dragon hatches for him, enemies locate him and murder his uncle, a village bard escorts him to flee, the boy gets introduced into the real world, acquaints with supernatural powers, win the war against a fierce enemy, pursues a challenging romance and finds out the secret of his life etc...
The beginning pages of Eragon will definitely raise the interests of a fantasy reader. However as one reads through, there are striking similarities between the Harry Potter series and Eragon. The protagonists are teenage boys orphaned in their childhood. While Harry Potter is under the guardianship of his unsympathetic aunt and family, Eragon is under the care of his loving uncle and family. They are initially unaware of their rightful supernatural world and bumps into that blindfolded.
Once Harry Potter and Eragon reach the supernatural world, they become the heroes or saviours of that world. Both of them have to fight against mighty magicians who have distorted their lives as well as the society. There is all right to believe that Christopher Paolini was influenced by the concept of ‘Dementors’ in Harry Potter series while depicting Ra’azac in Eragon. Both these evil sect of creatures can glide through air, can drain their enemy of emotions, do always hide under their hoods and emulate foul breath. There are elves (though in different provisos), use of magic and conspiracies that can be traced as the binding forces between two books.
The influence from J.K.Rowling can be attributed to the author’s teenage while writing Eragon. However, while taking the author’s age into consideration, the series are a promise for the wonderful tales that have to come out from his pen. Christopher Paolini has discovered a brilliant secret of magic that Rowling had missed in her wizard series. That only makes the Eragon a little more interesting than Harry Potter series. However, the readers will definitely hope that he’ll miss out unnecessary adventures and incoherent events in his forthcoming books.
One more last point to be noted here is the author’s inclination towards Indian ideas and rituals. The name of the elven princess Arya, the rigorous ‘Rimag’ practice that is a duplication of ‘Indian Yoga’, the advocacy of vegetarianism and the narration of the power of nature are based on Indian culture. Being an Indian, I enjoyed noticing these espouses.
I couldn’t like Eragon as I liked Harry Potter series. This may be because; I read the teenage wizard’s adventures prior to the teenage dragon rider’s adventures. On the whole, I enjoyed reading Eragon and Eldest. I always have the feeling that if characters can communicate with me in my dreams, that book has got into me. I slept with the whispers of Eragon, Saphira, Brom and Arya around me, while reading these books. In that way, I am happy to get these books into my hands. Keep flying Eragon and Saphira; there are people who need to meet you!
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