When Harry Met Simba
Now I know what you’re thinking. ‘Simba? As in The Lion King?’ Heck yeah! No, I’m not crazy. At least not this time. If you think about it, it starts to make sense. Here’s my logic.
Let’s start from the beginning. Both Harry and Simba lose a parent (or in Harry’s case, both parents) which causes their journeys as characters. Both characters think that it’s their own fault, which again, it somewhat is, although it wasn’t directly caused by them. In both stories, the parent(s) die to save their child. The difference? Harry is a wizard, and Simba is a lion.
Later on in the stories, the two characters have grown up. They’re both outcasts in their respective stories. Although Harry is stuck in a family of Muggles who hate him and ‘his kind,’ and Simba goes to live with Timone and Pumba, who love him like family, Simba ended up in that situation because he was tricked into thinking he was an outcast by his evil uncle, Scar.
Speaking of Scars, let’s talk about Harry’s! Harry’s lightning-shaped scar on his forehead is his claim to fame at Hogwarts, the school for wizards. The minute he arrives, he’s practically worshiped because of this scar, but more importantly, how he got it. The minute Simba comes back, he too is instantly a hero. Everyone sees Harry and Simba as the light at the end of the tunnel—and I don’t mean the train.
My final similarity is a small, and rather ironic, similarity, but I’d like to point out that when Harry’s sorted into his Hogwarts house, He’s put into Gryffindor. What is Gryffindor’s mascot? Oh! Look! A Lion!
I rest my case—Humans? Lions? Not so different after all, huh?
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