<page_title> Harry Potter influences and analogues </page_title> <section_title> Overview </section_title> <table> <cell> A Wizard of Earthsea <col_header> Work </col_header> </cell> <cell> Ursula K. Le Guin <col_header> Author </col_header> </cell> <cell> 1968 <col_header> Origin </col_header> </cell> <cell> Protagonist is a young boy sent to a special school for wizards He receives a scar that hurts whenever the villain is nearby <col_header> Similarities </col_header> </cell> </table>
The basic premise of Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), in which a boy was sent to a special school for wizards.