#did King of the Hill really just make an appearance in my HP post?

[kiera-raelyn]

Yeah, there was a lot about the American magic system, such as we saw, that just... didn't jibe with how I, as an American, think it would be.

Not the least of which is that we got one school while Europe got three? And Europe can fit multiple times into this country? I think tf not. The First Nation peoples would definitely have at least one of their own schools. The NE, of course. And the South. Prolly the Midwest, too, because let's be real, the corn is alive. The SW would 110% have its own school. I can't speak to the NW, though. Frankly, it's baffling to me that such disparate places over such large areas identify as one (1) discrete political/cultural unit.

Anyway. The other magic schools and the details on the American Wizarding World make it pretty clear that JK doesn't understand cultures outside her own more than on a very basic surface level, if even that. Which, y'know, you do you, boo. But the arrogance required to confidently put that (blatantly ill-conceived) stuff out on your global platform is... astounding. Like bish really said I've got the resources at this point in my career that I could have at least A Conversation with anthropologists from the regions I want to plop schools in willy-nilly to try and get a feel for cultural nuance, but nah. I got this. Research? Stop! That's my purse! I don't know you!

I have always imagined the American magical community in Harry Potter to be significantly less… structured than that of Britain. America is just so big, and the states can be so different, and history is so fucked up and complicated that a whole secret society with a completely separate government and people who’re totally clueless about the muggle world just makes no sense to me.

American wix participate in general elections and watch tv and their kids go to muggle school during the day and learn magic at home or in after-school programs and play quidditch and football and only your great grandma has owls while everyone else just has a phone and generally don’t obliviate muggles who see magic shit bc lol who’s gonna believe them anyway.

And European wix haaaate dealing with them bc they won’t do things the Proper Magical Way they just do whatever the fuck they want bc AMERICA FUCK YEAH.

*eagle noises*