No worries! Fair warning, I actually have Theories about this and you've accidentally given me permission to spout them at you. Sorry in advance XD
everyone in my immediate circle seems to think she's a terrific world builder Is your circle mostly American, by any chance? I ask because I've had American friends rhapsodise about how 'inventive' Hogwarts and the whole House system is, and I'm just sitting there dying laughing because Hogwarts is your bog standard British fancy boarding school with magic.
And I think the other major factor is that JKR is very good at funny names and clever little tricks of wordplay, which obscures the fact that the larger bones of her world-building - how the WW gets its food, how in the world they have a breeding population with one school, why we don't see any actual pureblood culture - just aren't there. It's like a building with absolutely gorgeous external details- stained glass windows, gold filigree on the roofs, the whole shebang- but then the damned support beams might as well be made of cardboard and candy floss.
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Date: 2018-09-25 04:04 am (UTC)everyone in my immediate circle seems to think she's a terrific world builder
Is your circle mostly American, by any chance? I ask because I've had American friends rhapsodise about how 'inventive' Hogwarts and the whole House system is, and I'm just sitting there dying laughing because Hogwarts is your bog standard British fancy boarding school with magic.
And I think the other major factor is that JKR is very good at funny names and clever little tricks of wordplay, which obscures the fact that the larger bones of her world-building - how the WW gets its food, how in the world they have a breeding population with one school, why we don't see any actual pureblood culture - just aren't there. It's like a building with absolutely gorgeous external details- stained glass windows, gold filigree on the roofs, the whole shebang- but then the damned support beams might as well be made of cardboard and candy floss.