  tanya grotter () is the female protagonist of a russian fantasy novel series by dmitri yemets. tanya (short for tatiana) grotter is an orphan with intentional resemblances to j. k. rowling's harry potter. despite its reputation in russia and the many books it has spawned, the series is not available in english translation, because of the first book having been judged a breach of copyright. ==content== the central character and plot elements of the first novel, tanya grotter and the magical double bass, closely resemble those of harry potter and the philosopher's stone, but are transposed into a russian setting. tanya grotter has an unusual birthmark on her nose, magical powers, an upbringing by "lopukhoid" (equivalent to muggle) relatives after her parents were killed by an evil sorceress chuma-del-tort (the official translation of voldemort name in russian was 'volan-de-mort'), and goes to study at the tibidokhs (Ð¢Ð¸Ð±Ð¸Ð´Ð¾ÑÑ) school for behaviorally-challenged young witches and wizards. tanya's foster-family, the durnevs, live in an urban apartment block, and tanya is forced to sleep not in a cupboard but in the apartment's loggia. yemets described the books as "a cultural reply" to the potter series,legal threat for 'russian potter', bbc news online, february 10, 2003 and they feature allusion to russian culture and folkloredmitri yemets interview, cityout novgorod, september 3, 2007 (in russian) such as baba yaga, rusalki, witches on bald mountain and the works of pushkin (for instance, tibidox is on the island of buyan mentioned in pushkin's the tale of tsar saltan). after the first book, the plots diverge from those of the harry potter series. for instance, in tanya grotter and the golden leech, tanya finds herself pitted against "hurry pooper" (a thinly disguised harry potter) in the world dragonball championship. while trying to reach the ball, they crash, creating a new timeline in which chuma-del-tort has 
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