So here's a take: The Magicians is often called a "deconstruction" or even a straight up "parody/satire" of Harry Potter, because its world is so dark and nihilistic and fucked up on a foundational level ...But really, that's just taking Harry Potter seriously
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Azkaban is an incredibly powerful symbolic argument for prison abolition, the moral urgency of it If you could look into a prison as it exists right now and see the dark hooded shapes gleefully, greedily sucking the joy and hope out of human souls, funded by our tax dollars
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And yet, as powerful a metaphor as this is once you get it, a damningly high percentage of Harry Potter fans never did get it Because Rowling, herself, didn't get it She accidentally grabbed onto something and then just let it go again
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Yup. Which is why to be honest if I look at my own wizard story universe I've been building in wikis and RPG Maker for a half decade, I'd have to admit I'm ripping off Lev Grossman much more than she who must not be named
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Like I'll admit I flinch away from fully worldbuilding what happens if mundanes fully find out about wizards so I just run with Grossman's kludge where there's a bunch of cyberpunk illegal mages who learned their magic from defunct Geocities pages and torrents
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Dementors and Del Toro's Pale Man are my nightmare fuel
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