Harry Potter Vs Doctor Who Research Paper

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Harry Potter and Doctor Who have many things in common yet though the main ideas and plot couldn’t be more different.The main things you will find that are the same is that the main character is inhuman which gives them certain powers, they both die more than once and they both have arch rivals that are the main reason their family is dead.The main difference is that one is alien the other is a wizard and one has an immortal villain the other keeps having offspring.Although Harry Potter and doctor who are completely different shows with different plots there are many things that are the same.

Harry Potter is different from Doctor who because the main character is a wizard and in Doctor Who the main character is an alien.With Harry being a
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In Harry Potter when Voldemort goes to kill Harry, his mother puts a protection spell on him so Voldemort dies instead, but when he died a part of his soul goes into Harry setting it up to where when it's him against Harry he ends up killing off the part of his soul that resides in Harry instead of killing him. So he comes back to life while also defeating death with a protection spell when he was younger.In Doctor Who of course you know from the second paragraph that he has the power to regenerate, which means he can come back to life, or cheat death as many times as he

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