Potter and Narnia

[Dismay]

Ok, so over a year ago I watched the first Chronicles of Narnia (the BBC version, which is more accurate) right after reading the sixth Harry Potter book. And something amazed me: there were parallels in a certian scene within the two books!

I did my own research later, discovering, in fact, that not only were these two scenes similar, but the dialogue was near identical!

Now you might be wondering which scens they are. I'd type them up, but my college dorm room doesn't equip me with Narnia and Harry Potter books, although my hall's theme this year is Harry Potter.

Narnia scene: Aslan tells Lucy and Susan that they must do exactly what he says right before he leaves them to meet with the White Witch.

Harry Potter: Dumbledore gives Harry instructions on what to do when they are in the cave retreiving the locket.

What Dumbledore and Aslan say are nearly identical, but the reactions of the characters they are talking to are completly different.

So basically, I have some questions about it for discussion:

-Does this mean Rowling "copied" of of C.S. Lewis' work, albiet maybe subconciously?

-What does this tell us about Dumbedore's role? If you are familair with the fact that Narnia is a Christian allegory, you might know that Aslan was a Christ-figure. Does this mean the same for Dumbledore as well?

[Wizz]

Expanding on that a little, you can see another connection between Aslan and Dumbledore. Aslan decides to sacrifice himself to subdue the power of the White Witch (or something along those lines) whereas Dumbledore sacrifices himself to subdue the power of the Elder Wand.

In both cases, the deaths are not of great concern as Dumbledore was going to die anyway because of the curse and Aslan knew that he would come back to life.