[ SECRET POST #2008 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2008 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 088 secrets from Secret Submission Post #287.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
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Comments

Wrong genre

[zogblaster]

Harry Potter is a school story first and a fantasy story second. It fits into a pre-existing genre of stories following children at boarding school. This is probably a good part of why the wizarding world is relatively old-fashioned and modelled on the upper classes: because that's how boarding school stories are. In universe, we have the long life expectancy to blame, but from a writing point of view? She's matching her genre, before tweaking it.

The point? The upper classes tend(ed) to marry people from their own class, and stay married. They tend(ed) to marry relatively young. They tend(ed) to marry people they had known from childhood, who were family friends or friends of friends.

The wizarding world is small. If you're going to marry a British wizard and avoid the potential problems of a muggle/wizard marriage, plus the complication that you're unlikely to get to know many muggles that well, you're going to be marrying someone from Hogwarts. It's not like there's a variety of wizarding universities that people go to, splitting couples up for those years and mixing them with other potential partners.

Re: Wrong genre

[(Anonymous)]

This is an interesting point that I hadn't seen before.