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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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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Frankly though this is why HP was so fruitful to fanfic. You don't have to worry too much about the worldview mechanics because they're not there. If you want to write a fic about your theory about boggarts and house elves you can
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Even though I liked the HP books fine, a thing that bugged me from the beginning was how she clearly knew the names of folklore but little else. Goblins are a great example: “Hey, y’know those cowardly feral idiots? They’re all bankers now!”
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No one, not even Hermione, gets into even the slightest discussion of magical theory when even noncommittal statements (“We don’t know why spells work” “Spell discovery can be different for every spell”) would have shown that some wizards were at LEAST curious about it
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