I have a SUPER huge problem with the HP verse and food. Where does the food come from? Why on earth are pumpkins your staple vegetable? Do you have *more* creatures like the oppressed house-elves that are even LESS worthy of freedom slaving away in some hidden pureblood's fields somewhere in England? Because honestly I can't see Lucius Malfoy telling Draco how to plant corn and harvest beans, and the rich are *clearly* the landholders in this world.
I have had loooong conversations about the world building in HP. If the wizards of the UK wear robes ("traditonal" clothing?) do the wizards of Polynesia wear extravagant grass skirts regularly? And who decided that robes were traditional? Can't we have some wizards who are SUPER old school and want to run about in fur and leather just covering their danglies?
and actually, I was always a little thrown by how the very first book, Redwall, started with Cluny and his crew jumping off a cart being pulled by a crazed horse. No other reference of larger animals after that ever. I guess we just assumed that we had some species that were dedicated to stealing milk from humans? Squirrels, maybe? I never trusted those cute twitchy noses.
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Date: 2012-08-26 08:56 am (UTC)I have a SUPER huge problem with the HP verse and food. Where does the food come from? Why on earth are pumpkins your staple vegetable? Do you have *more* creatures like the oppressed house-elves that are even LESS worthy of freedom slaving away in some hidden pureblood's fields somewhere in England? Because honestly I can't see Lucius Malfoy telling Draco how to plant corn and harvest beans, and the rich are *clearly* the landholders in this world.
I have had loooong conversations about the world building in HP. If the wizards of the UK wear robes ("traditonal" clothing?) do the wizards of Polynesia wear extravagant grass skirts regularly? And who decided that robes were traditional? Can't we have some wizards who are SUPER old school and want to run about in fur and leather just covering their danglies?
and actually, I was always a little thrown by how the very first book, Redwall, started with Cluny and his crew jumping off a cart being pulled by a crazed horse. No other reference of larger animals after that ever. I guess we just assumed that we had some species that were dedicated to stealing milk from humans? Squirrels, maybe? I never trusted those cute twitchy noses.