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
A lot of that is kind of just standard cutesy HALLOWEENTOWN fare, yeah
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I mean, The Worst Witch did all of this before
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
clarification: i haven't read the books and i've only seen the first flick - once. i always felt the platform was a sort of rehash of the wardrobe from lewis. or at least that's what it made me think of at the time.
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Replying to @EllieFragment @Nymphomachy
Yeah it's the origin of the name of the subgenre, "portal fantasy" Although Harry Potter acts like a portal fantasy without actually being one, Hogwarts is still physically in the real world
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