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[–] excral@feddit.org 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What world building? Rowling' wizarding world is the epitome of nothing makes sense and can only be explained by "a wizard did it".

Hogwarts was built in the 10th century, but uses far more modern Muggle technology for their sewage and sanitary system rather than some established form of teleportation/relocation.

The economy is a joke as they use fixed exchange rates between gold and silver can be abused for arbitrage trades with the Muggle world. It can only be explained by all wizards and witches stopping their primary education as ten-year-olds but even then it would take only one to figure it out and break the system.

Why on earth use owls to carry letters and packages? The practicality of using owls over other birds aside, why not use established instant transportation methods like the floo network? The only explanation we get is that the floo network and apparition are blocked in Hogwarts but does this one school dictate the rules for the entire world? And even then, wouldn't it be easier to set up a post office in an exempted area or just outside Hogwarts?

I could go on as there are countless other flaws and then just as many again once you consider the implications of the time turner. Having a sport with nonsense rules is one of the lesser issues when the world is inherently broken

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Really, I couldn't stay interested past Dumbledore's death knowing there was like a hundred ways he might not actually be dead. The whole deathly hallows thing even acknowledged that, it's good that Rowling very intentionally chose not to do a C.S.Lewis there. But the problem was the inherent brokenness of the world, which was just unsuitable for a serious story.