Sure. But to say that "being a better worldbuilder is paradoxical" is to suggest the following: - Whoever made the sandpit is also by definition the best at building sandcastles - The fan building sandcastles, by definition, is has never and cannot ever build a sandpit themselves
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It’s not - the sandcastle isn’t world building, the sandpit is. A fanfic writer, purely as a writer of fanon cannot make a sandpit. Their castles may be 100x better than the sandpit maker, but the sand they’re building on isn’t theirs. That’s what I’m getting at.
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You're suggesting that, because I am playing in someone else's sandpit, it is impossible that I could have built sandpits before myself, or that I ever will, and that I have no capacity to study to, and therefore could never hope to understand what it takes to make a good sandpit
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No I’m not, I didn’t say that anywhere. Any fanfic writer could write brilliant stories themselves - no one is denying that. But in this particular case, if you choose to build a castle in someone else’s sandpit, in this case, you can’t be better at building THIS specific sandpit
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lol That's a bold claim, given that JKR is famously still building the sandpit "One school for the entirety of North America, LOL" In order to tell coherent sandcastles in her sandpit, you're forced to build around her arbitrary crap
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And? Her sandpit isn’t finite - that’s the joy of being the author. You do realise that the whole of North America isn’t wizards. It’s a tiny minority from people aged 11-17. People love to say it’s crazy that it’s only 1 school but due to the tiny minority of people who are...
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...actually magic, and the small age group, it’s probably manageable. Ilvermorny would be a BIG school, but it’s not inconceivable.
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I can't find it right now but people have done the math based on the percentage of Britain's population that's implied to be at Hogwarts at any given time and Uh It's not pretty, dude
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No, 1% is a massive overestimate for the prevalence of wizards in the population, it's more like 0.00005% There's like 300 students at Hogwarts and 3,000 wizards in the whole UK, it's like the population of a small town
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While this does make Ilvermorny etc. less ridiculous, it does raise all these massive other questions about how there can be a "wizarding world" with its own culture and economy etc. at all
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Yeah I do see what you mean, it’s a smallish community but I think the unanimity in that they’ve all had the same experience of going through the same school, brings a sense of unity to the community and allows things like currency and the economy to function
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Lol I don't mean how do they all get along without fighting, I mean the exact opposite of that They're not a "country" at all, they're a tiny subculture, there's fewer wizards in the UK than there are furries
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