[ SECRET POST #4836 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4836 ⌋

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Comments

[meadowphoenix]

i mean, i don't understand why those things were necessary. like what is anybody's stake in superiority and power, lmao.

[(Anonymous)]

usually control driven often by fear. Something only peripherally addressed in the series due to Harry's limited omniscient viewpoint. But not knowing how magic works, or why it exists, I can only come up with a bunch of theories as to what Voldemort was going to do if he won or if there was a bigger endgame to control magic and how it manifested.

Most of fandom agrees that it was going to be dystopian levels of bad though.

Big stake: "the magical world ends as we know it"

Epic stake: "Magic is destroyed completely."

It's framing and tension, imo. Almost anything would have been better than half a book of camping.

[meadowphoenix]

oh, okay, I think where I disagree is that there's a missing part considering the scope. what we get as an endgame is authoritarian rule of the magical uk, which considering that we never seriously get away from the uk makes the stakes appropriate to all actors involved, including purebloods on both sides. it's weird to me to think that purebloods like ron don't have a motivation here. the conflict voldemort uses is an extant conflict already visible with the hogwarts founders. that conflict is already relevant to the magical britain voldemort is born into, and it already has a context (muggle witch hunting) which makes sense to have been the beginning but not a lasting impetus. the framing follows the endgame completely, and I'm not sure what adding post-win would have done, beyond raise the stakes in a way that necessitated expanding the scope of the books to outside britain...which isn't foundational, imo.

frankly, the fic from GOF on was amazing with expanding the scope beyond the uk, but i'm betting that it doesn't feel like you're missing something if you read those books 1-7 without interacting with fandom. i can completely understand preferring the larger fic takes tho.