Enough with the Harry Potter comparisons

I finished Aimee Carter's "Simon Thorn and the Wolf's Den" last night, and one of the reviewers at Amazon made some comment about Harry Potter.  It seems that every book about adolescents, magic, and school gets that comparison.  Considering how little this book resembled Harry Potter in every other respect, it doesn't even seem like a good idea to make the comparison.  I did enjoy Simon Thorn and his determination to do what he felt was right, as well the fact he also tried to accept the consequences of his actions.  Just because an author starts with the above three mentioned components does not make it a Harry Potter knock-off, it is how the author progresses with those components, and how the author handles the plot.  The more components of Rowling's book that make it into the new author's work is really what makes a knock-off.  I enjoyed the fact that this author really only took two of those components to create this fast paced novel, since school was a totally negligible aspect.  Was there a special school? Yes. Did Simon attend this school? No, at least not as a regular student.  After all the action, it does seem that he will be attending in the future books, but the school will likely be fundamentally changed after the events of this book.  Anyway, I guess I have seen the Harry Potter comparison far too many times for it to actually mean anything, which is a bad thing.  Points of reference are nice, but this one has been so over-used in describing YA fantasy novels that it no longer means anything except that there will be adolescents, magic, and a school.