I obviously don’t want to get in trouble for it being to similar to a film or book. While I did get the inspiration from Harry Potter the actual story to it is not the same as it has my own ideas but I wanted to see what you guys think.
So basically you a young teenage living in an orphanage as your parents abandon you when you were a baby. Growing up you realise you not like other children strange things happen when you are feeling certain emotions such as angry and scared.
On your 16th birthday you receive a letter telling you that you are special and have abilities that no one else does, to prove it the author of the letter leaves a magic puzzle for you to complete and only those with magical abilities can complete it.
Once completing the puzzle it reveals a secret location which they want to meet you. Of course you are curious and decide to leave to meet this person. When you go it is revealed that the person you meet is your mother and that you are a very powerful witch/ wizard and that your help is needed to defeat an evil person called the evil lord. But your mother has to help you train and learn how to control your magic.
This doesn’t sound like Harry Potter at all, I am curious as to why she needed to solve a puzzle when the the person who sent it to her was her mother who knows she’s a witch/wizard.
It will all be explained although it’s no a spoiler it’s so that the mother can prover to her daughter/son is magical so that the MC has some proof that it’s not a prank if you get what I mean. So it’s more like
“I know this is a lot to take in and is hard to believe. So here is a puzzle which can only be solved with some who has magical abilities”
Does that make sense? Obviously against I’ve done some planning it will be explained better it’s just so the MC doesn’t seem so gullible.
As long as the puzzle comes back later, and isn’t just a throw away, I think that is a really good way to ease the MC and the reader into the magical world.
The beginning half does remind of Harry Potter but that is were the similarities end for me…though the “chosen one” trope seems over done to me so as long as you add your own unique twist your are good! I also hope you have some struggle between the character and the Mom because even if there was a supposed “good reason” for abandonment I think there would still be resentment and lack of trust.
“How is the Mom going to prove they are actually the MC’s mom? Why does it specifically have to be the Mom to train the MC?” are questions I think the MC should ask themselves.
