I’m sorry…her Wizarding World? Isn’t it all just existing mythology?? Maybe the gophers who are horny for gold were hers but wizards, ghosts, dragons, mandrakes, hippogriffs, wands, antisemitic goblins were all around for hundreds of years before she shat out her books. If she had been hit by a bus and died in 86 when she was unhoused, ChatGPT would be writing Harry Potter right now.
Existing mythology but somehow always worse because it’s all filtered through a boring posh British lense
Perfect example, dragons
What do most people think of when they think of a dragon? Maybe Smaug from the Hobbit or the eternal dragon from Dragonball but the dragons in Harry Potter couldn’t be further from either of those, she wrote her dragons to be big stupid fire-breathing flying lizards because she has literally no imagination
I’m sorry…her Wizarding World? Isn’t it all just existing mythology?? Maybe the gophers who are horny for gold were hers but wizards, ghosts, dragons, mandrakes, hippogriffs, wands, antisemitic goblins were all around for hundreds of years before she shat out her books. If she had been hit by a bus and died in 86 when she was unhoused, ChatGPT would be writing Harry Potter right now.
Existing mythology but somehow always worse because it’s all filtered through a boring posh British lense
Perfect example, dragons
What do most people think of when they think of a dragon? Maybe Smaug from the Hobbit or the eternal dragon from Dragonball but the dragons in Harry Potter couldn’t be further from either of those, she wrote her dragons to be big stupid fire-breathing flying lizards because she has literally no imagination
Excellent point! All the spectacle of dragons, but none of the social commentary.