the POTTER books can't take this exit; wizardry is not merely an entire institutionalized world of the elite but it *explicitly undergirds all of human society*, including that of muggles It requires the idiom of science fiction to explain how this changes things, yet absconds
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Her inability to world build really shows in that Wizards are just ass backwards on everything Muggle related despite a good percentage of them having either been muggles or having at least one muggle parent.
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Replying to @Demodeview @Nymphomachy
So much energy is spent by wizard society keeping itself a secret yet it's always in these dumb ass backwards ways that have a huge chance to expose them.
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Replying to @Demodeview @Nymphomachy
Like, Platform 9 and 3/4 is a neat little silly joke, but the question of why they have a secret wizard tran station that you have to run through a wall in a public place to get to makes no sense. Why would you do that if you want to keep secret?
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Replying to @Demodeview @Nymphomachy
And, I mean you could think of an explanation. I can shit out at least two right now. But it all underpins JKs lack of a desire to actually sell us on any part of the world outside of magic school castle.
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Replying to @Demodeview @Nymphomachy
Well it's because the first book was supposed to be a silly children's book and the goofiness of it all was part of the sense of wonder
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Platform 9 3/4 is the whimsical version of the sense of dread a creepypasta tries to instill in you by saying you can find a magic portal by saying a few special words to the front desk clerk of "any mental hospital or psychiatric institution"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
I don't think that's bad in and of itself A lot of the stuff in Philosopher's Stone can be taken as straight up satire if you look at it the right way, like the rules of Quidditch
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Nathan Robinson's retrospective points out things like the Hogwarts shopping list are supposed to be a joke, the sheer incongruity of describing the accoutrements of a fairy tale witch in dry bureaucratic terms "Cauldron, 2.5 gallons, 12 inches in diameter", etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
A big part of the problem is the books' attempt to transition to serious dark fantasy while still being set in this cartoon universe, the whole Cerebus Syndrome thing
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The moral guardians back in the day pointed this out, that Christian parents had thought stuff like "Jellylegs Jinx!" was obviously harmless but Voldemort resurrecting himself via an occult ritual involving spilling an unwilling victim's blood was less so
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