Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon is the loosely translated title (see below) of an unauthorized Chinese 198-page book written and published in People's Republic of China, 2002. It was seen as an attempt to profit from the worldwide popularity of the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, at a time when the anticipation for the fifth book in that series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, had reached a fever pitch.
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Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon is the loosely translated title (see below) of an unauthorized Chinese 198-page book written and published in People's Republic of China, 2002. It was seen as an attempt to profit from the worldwide popularity of the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, at a time when the anticipation for the fifth book in that series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, had reached a fever pitch.
The odd construction "Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon" is really Bao Zoulong (￨ﾱﾹ￨ﾵﾰ￩ﾾﾙ Bￃﾠo Zￇﾒulￃﾳng), a character in the book. When non-Chinese media started writing about the book, this was not understood, and the name was translated character for character.
According to translated excerpts, almost the entire book consists of the verbatim text of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, with most names changed to those of Harry Potter characters (but not all ￢ﾀﾓ for instance, the master wizard is still referred to as "Gandalf"), even the chapter names are almost...
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