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According to students in her class, sophomore Kelly Vera completely plagiarized her discussion post from the sixth installment of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.
“We were supposed to discuss the role of abstraction in interwar literature, but Kelly’s post was clearly taken from the pages of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” said classmate Ruby Stein, scrolling through the Canvas student responses until she reached Vera’s, which began with, “Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it’s true you’ve got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest.”
“I mean, that doesn’t even make sense in the context of the class,” Stein continued. “And it’s, like, the least subtle thing I’ve ever seen.”
Vera’s post reportedly also stated that “Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stood in front of him one by one, his mother, his father, his godfather, and finally Dumbledore, all determined to protect him; but now that was over. He could not let anybody else stand between him and Voldemort.”
“It literally has nothing to do with anything we’re learning,” Stein said, raising an eyebrow at Vera’s inclusion of the phrase “Dumbledore will only leave Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him.” “It’s just confusing because, if you’re gonna plagiarize, at least do it well. Don’t just copy paragraphs about horcruxes from a book published in 2005.”
At press time, Vera was copying sections of John Green’s Looking For Alaska for her final paper.
