Chuckwagon
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As a rule, Rowling writes at her best for the Hogwarts setting & whimsical children's magical adventures. The further away she gets from these & the wider her world gets, the worse her writing becomes in just about every regard, from the characters themselves to the worldbuilding & plots; and then there are the retcons which don't actually tell anyone anything they want to know, but just make the Wizarding World worse. Gay Dumbledore & maybe-black Hermione aside, there was also that time it was revealed that before the adoption of modern plumbing, wizards & witches used to just shit themselves on the spot & then use magic to poof away their waste. Suffice to say, nigga, nobody thought of that and certainly nobody wanted to know it nor does it enhance the Wizarding World in any way.The more I learn about Harry Potter lore the more I'm disappointed in how Rowling was so uneducated about history. In the time it took me to smoke a cig I had already come up with a pitch for a Cold War era spy thriller in the HP universe. Imagine a WWII era series with SS wizards.
Also if you think Burgerland got the short end of Rowling's creativity stick, the Japanese version of Hogwarts is literally just named 'magic place' in their language.
The heart attack gun isn't real, that's just the result of glowie wizards sniping their assigned targets with the Killing Curse.Glowie wizards are terrifying concept when you get down to it. Iirc the killing curse doesn’t leave any trace. The victims are perfectly normal and healthy. The CIA and KGB would work overtime to put that into a gun. Wizards are capable of turning everyday items into portals, so imagine they turn your keys into a portkey to a black site in God knows where. Forget prism, we have NSA wizards.