Okay, so it was 1997 (not that big of a Harry Potter fan--great for getting kids to read, not my cup of tea).
However, it couldn't be Harry Potter--there's a Harrold Potter in Supertemps: head of Truly Amazing Metahero Investigations, Inc.
That's something that will probably get sharp focus in IST Academy, as it's going to be the focus of a lot of the kids. However, depending on how much Charles Academy is like Hogwarts and isn't like the actual Academy (Hogwarts would be a horrible model for the actual Academy), there are going to be a lot of disillusioned youngsters. Also, there may be a lot of "accidents" involving children shortly after that book is written as children learn how to try to activate their own, latent Metahuman abilities.
This book could be a bad, bad thing for the world (from a realistic view point, not from a setting view point--it's solid gold for that). That might be an interesting origin for a super: they put themselves in harms way, trying to develop metahuman abilities so they could be taken to Charles Academy like Harry Potter. It "worked" in that they got powers, but it was an eye-opening experience as the actual Academy was nothing like the books.
However, it couldn't be Harry Potter--there's a Harrold Potter in Supertemps: head of Truly Amazing Metahero Investigations, Inc.
That's something that will probably get sharp focus in IST Academy, as it's going to be the focus of a lot of the kids. However, depending on how much Charles Academy is like Hogwarts and isn't like the actual Academy (Hogwarts would be a horrible model for the actual Academy), there are going to be a lot of disillusioned youngsters. Also, there may be a lot of "accidents" involving children shortly after that book is written as children learn how to try to activate their own, latent Metahuman abilities.
This book could be a bad, bad thing for the world (from a realistic view point, not from a setting view point--it's solid gold for that). That might be an interesting origin for a super: they put themselves in harms way, trying to develop metahuman abilities so they could be taken to Charles Academy like Harry Potter. It "worked" in that they got powers, but it was an eye-opening experience as the actual Academy was nothing like the books.