[ SECRET POST #3358 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3358 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Really? It was "fantastic"? Tell me, when do wizarding children learn maths? What's the taxation system like? How is the Minister of Magic elected? Is there any higher education? Is there any primary school before Hogwarts? How were the European witch hunts not a problem, given the overwhelming majority of people executed for witchcraft were hanged, not burned? How is being able to make yourself fire-proof a good way of surviving burning at the stake anyway, given most people died of smoke inhalation?

*Deep breath*

If the Tonks house could be hidden under Fidelius with one of the residents as the Secret Keeper, why couldn't the Potter's do the same? Why the hell are love potions available on the open market? How is it that Hagrid is never convicted of a crime, but for getting expelled from high school is banned for life from having a wand? Why are the security measures on the goddamn Philosopher's Stone so shit that a bunch of 11-year-olds can get through them? Why is the only security on the Goblet of Fire an Age Line (when, we can infer from Dumbledore's question to Harry, an underage student could just get an older student to enter their name for them)? Why does anyone ever care about house points?
Why does this page have so many sub-indexes??? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/HarryPotter

[(Anonymous)]

Yup. This is why I don't consider Rowling to be great at worldbuilding. You can love the world she did build... but the more you read and think about it, the more obvious it is that she didn't put a great deal of thought and planning into it. Which is kind of crucial for good worldbuilding.

[iggy]

Yawn. Harry Potter has been analyzed and picked apart to a degree very few book series have before. Most series, even ones widely viewed as great, would fall apart under similar levels of scrutiny.

Also a loooot of the questions you proposed are answered, are plainly just not plot holes, and some others are just--- weird (why do they care about house points? because people are competitive and get into stuff like that?? House pride is a thing that naturally occurs, because people do that shit. House pride is just school pride on a smaller scale). Rowling doesn't need to account for some people's apparent inability to handle reading comprehension in a children's series.

Also tv tropes is a terrible site.

[(Anonymous)]

I spent a pretty good chunk of my school life at a school with houses, and no-one gave a shit about the house cup or house points for more than about the five minutes it took to award the cup at the end of the year. I'd say only the heads of house could remember from one year to the next who won the year before.
That shit is just weird.

[ketita]

I don't think "wait, how many students are at Hogwarts" is a particularly scrutinizing level of scrutiny.
I get what you say about nitpicking, but as a casual fan of the books, I don't think the worldbuilding is particularly solid. I mean even Quidditch as a game is a terrible game, if you think about it for more than 3 seconds.

[blitzwing]

How is it that Hagrid is never convicted of a crime, but for getting expelled from high school is banned for life from having a wand?

You have to have be a graduated wizard to use a wand. He could probably have gone to Durmstrang or another wizard school (if they'd accept him) and graduated, and been free to use a wand. There's no ban on him using a wand as far as I understand it, he just never met the qualifications to do so.

[(Anonymous)]

fred and george never graduated from hogwarts and they used wands.

[blitzwing]

Fred and George didn't give a flying f*ck about rules.

[(Anonymous)]

It must suck to not be able to enjoy the escapism of fiction from worrying about minutiae like this.

I mean, at some point - especially in a children's book - you just have to be willing to suspend disbelief and go with it, or you'll miss the joys it *does* have to offer, you know?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, the autism can be inconvenient.