if they're going to retcon something they should take out the "knickerbocker glory" that Dudley wanted
Because your main exposure to the "Muggle World" is the Dursleys who are meant to be stereotypes of upper middle class Tory voters which I guess in Britain has just as many connotations of "the 1950s rule" as it does with their American equivalent.
I think a lot of it is that that's what American audiences think Britain looks like. I think Americans in general have quite a dated idea of the British experience.
Because that's what the foreign market wants. When we look at a Japanese movie, we want what matches our mental image of Japan - rainy and beautiful mountains, rainy and neon-lit cities, fast streamlined cars and motorbikes (in the rain). When we watch a Chinese movie we want to see little inward-curving roofs and carved stone dog-lion things resting a paw on a ball. When we watch a movie set in Africa, we want to see shanties and cluttered market streets. Even if that "Africa" is the hyper-technologically advanced Wakanda it must have wooden market stalls or children playing football barefoot. And if yanks watch a movie set in Britain they want to see cramped London streets and coal-burning trains and the Irish have to all wear green and have a giant dancing leprechaun.
Nah, I don't think he is... He's more of the Steve Irwin of the Wizarding World (minus the stingray injury, of course), just wanting to educate wizards about magical creatures and all that jazz...
Happens in real life too, not just with media representation. The Japanese are infamous for going into fugues of depression any time they visit Paris and realize it's nothing like they expected it to be, full of obnoxious Parisans, litter, and crime.
He kind of is, but it seems that anyone else within the series who actually has fun with their career tends to come off as such.
shit looked like the 40s when I was there in the early 90s except for some bullshit Bell Labs exhibit or whoever it was or a few other odds and ends that were at least 80s
Knickerbockers are an outdated form of trouser for rich boys that some posh schools still use as a uniform, so it's basically a coded way of saying 'extra large ice cream for rich spoiled fancy boys'. Like Eton Mess. It's characterising Dudley before we find out about Smeltings or whatever the muggle public school is.
He's a Hufflepuff, so same thing.
Snape was the same year as the marauders, Voldemort was older - not clear how much by. So he spent most of his time at hogwarts, which is like the entire wizarding community, building up the death eaters who are basically the ss/black/brownshirts, there's probably a few years after he leaves hogwarts but the marauders haven't yet where he's infiltrating the ministry or whatever it is he's supposed to have done, and then the actual takeover / open power grab the year they leave school. The wizarding community is tiny; WW2 lasted four years.
