The HP world just falls apart if you look at it closely enough doesn’t it? And yet they try to convince me that it’s the most well thought out of any made up world ever! I can’t even imagine what Hogsmeade is supposed to look like, but I can see Ankh Morpork perfectly clearly, even down to the cobblestones.

most fans will argue that lots of books use the standard wizards, magic schools, monsters etc. But the don’t seem to understand that most writers use these as a base and build up, making something new but familiar.

Do we know what voldermort’s motives were, and his wizard Nazis? I can only remember eevil with a side of racism, classism? Whatever, they want to create a master race, so subtle, well done. I think she forgot that even Nazis were people, with their own beliefs. They were human and their actions were all the worse for that. Evil wizards are not scary because they’re not human, it’s safe to read about them because we know good will alway triumph. It’s not that simple with people, you can understand their reasoning even if it’s detestable. With evil, you don’t need to think about it, it can’t effect you.

That’s why HP fails in the deepness department. It tries to be about war, but there’s so much more to it than the big battles and angsting, even if it is a kid’s book. I didn’t see any real battle plans either, just leave it to the kids, it’ll be fine. And then everything’s fine at the end, no mourning, no memorials or remembrance day.

And yes, I think Hogwarts is the only magic school.