Willow ,'Storyteller'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
But isn't a lot of it taken care of magically? Those big feasts, for instance. That's wandwork, not actual cooking.
They say in the last book that you can't magically produce food -- even if there's magic used for going from raw ingredients to final plate, they still have to get the raw ingredients from somewhere.
explaining it without having that information relevant to the plot would have been a lot of boring backstory.
See the Girl w/ a Dragon Tattoo books and the structure of the Swedish government amongst many, many other things.
I would love to see her tackle her world from an adult perspective. AT least in a short story. Politics and economics and and class conflict outside of emergency situations.
I do have the sense that she has gobs and gobs of material she's written down to backstop the universe, even if she hasn't published it.
I think this is true of the characters - it's been widely reported that even very minor background characters have unpublished storylines and family trees, etc. But I never got the impression that she cared much about practical matters unless it was directly relevant to the plot (House elfs, Gringotts, etc)
Anyone remember a fanfic story that came out shortly after Deathly Hallows was published, beginning just after the epilogue, where Harry's son gets sorted into Slytherin and becomes best friends with Malfoy's son, and then there's something with them getting lost in some caves or tunnels? I remember thinking it took an interesting perspective on some of the issues with Slytherin, but I can't remember enough details to google it. Scorpius has the nickname Scops in that story, I'm pretty sure.
Oh, that sounds familiar, Hil. And don't Malfoy and Harry have to go looking for the kids together?
Yes, I know that one. I think we have a link to it on PolyRecs.
Oh, that sounds familiar, Hil. And don't Malfoy and Harry have to go looking for the kids together?
Yeah. And there's some backstory where Malfoy's wife had been in the Army, or something? And there's a scene where some of the other kids are teasing the Potter and Malfoy boys because they're in Slytherin, and Slytherin now has a reputation for being cowards and/or morally suspect because they ran away from the battle, and Harry says something like, "Well, that is what happened," and Draco replies, "We were never given a choice, and anyway, what the hell else were we supposed to do?"
Looks like it's "Coda to an Epilogue" by Maya, but all the links I can find are broken.
I always thought Hogwarts was a ministry-funded public school. Don't all the UK wizard children go there? That sounds public to me. And it makes it more sensible that they can do so much interfering in book 5.