To start off with the hippogriff in the room, yes, this book started out as Dramione fanfiction. However, Rowling doesn’t profit off it (that would be the entire point of rewriting it to publish), and to be perfectly blunt, anyone insisting that someone picking up this book who has never even heard of Harry Potter is going to, after reading, go pick up the middle school fantasy series that inspired it is kidding themselves. I’d draw a comparison between Fifty Shades and Twilight, but those at least were both romance series. There are even bigger genre and tone differences here.…