JKR's use of folklore is so haphazard and sloppy It's not just that it's "inaccurate", it's that the new shit she made up isn't particularly interesting or good, it's all seat-of-the-pants
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cluelesscreatu2 and
Like how the various species of fairies just have nothing to do with each other in JKR's world House-elves and boggarts have nothing to do with each other, even though the original DEFINITION of a boggart was a "house-elf" (a brownie) that turned to mischief due to mistreatment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cluelesscreatu2 and
That's an idea with HUGE potential if Rowling wants to turn the idea of brownies into some kind of commentary on slavery -- do humans keep house-elves enslaved out of fear, because their only experience with "free" house-elves is as dangerous and terrifying boggarts?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cluelesscreatu2 and
Not great for a children's book about wizards and witches tho is it. She isn't writting a social studies essay.
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Replying to @JamieCullum5 @Cluelesscreatu2 and
I'm not saying the books are bad because they're inaccurate, I'm saying they're bad *and* they're inaccurate If what she made up to replace the folklore she cribs from were actually creative and interesting it'd be all good, but it's not
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cluelesscreatu2 and
I don't care whether you think they are inaccurate or not. Accuracy is not a key component of fiction
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Replying to @JamieCullum5 @arthur_affect and
It’s being used to demonstrate her weaknesses as an author- that she does not have follow through with her ideas, and does not appear to research as well as people in this very conversation have claimed
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Replying to @Cybren @JamieCullum5 and
We tend to applaud authors who "show their work", i.e., demonstrate actual time and effort put into grasping the implications of things they write about (science fiction authors demonstrating literacy in physics, etc), as indicative of a commitment/dedication to their art
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren and
Someone like John Bellairs and JKR are like night and day It's really hard to fake authenticity, and the easiest way (which is actually a pretty hard way) is to "cheat" and use real folklore and take it seriously
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The sense that *people in the real world really believed this stuff* and therefore there's just the tiniest possibility *maybe it's all real* oozes from all over Bellairs' work It's why The House With A Clock In Its Walls can still be really creepy as an adult years later
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Whereas the worldbuilding in Harry Potter is paper thin, even as a child you can punch holes in it without even trying
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
LIKE, WHERE ARE HIS PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS OR ANY OF HIS PATERNAL FAMILY?!?! Like not even a handwavey, "They all in a wizard asylum because Voldemort fries their brains" or "The genocide wizard did a genocide on them" NOPE, NOTHING
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