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Dobby was really weird. The books just casually tell us slavery exists, and Harry frees one slave. Then in the next book, nobody talks about slavery at all. And then in the one after that, it turns out most elves actually like being enslaved. What the fuck.
A few bad slaveowner apples.
I still love HP, but it strikes me a wildly conservative now.
glances at hardcore science fiction
"You dont want that kind of life for yourself, trust me. Engaging fiction and 100% logical consistency rarely goes hand in hand. Any author who cares enough about rules to make sure they aren't broken will end up making a rule book with minor character drama."
In Eragon, we learn the history of magic, how it came to work how it does, why the funny words make magic happen, and how magic interacts with the world.
Eragon also drags like a motherfucker. It's a decent story but not well written.
If ya want a real mindfuck the CRPG Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscurum also has a well thought out tech system. Though the broad points are that magic fucks with the nature of reality for example casting a fireball may reduce friction by 5 percent, technology is closer to anti magic and anchors reality down meaning it becomes really hard to do magic. Also don't mix the two someone in lore tried to put a fire enchantment on a flintlock rifle and took out a city block.
That's silly. Any sufficiently analysed magic is indistinguishable from technology.
That's kinda an element of Arcanum magic is a science and technology in Arcanum is in many ways a form of magic. They are simply two different sciences that are largely mutually exclusive, also it's part of a larger meta commentary of progress vs traditions as well as a critique on capitalism. Also it was made by alumni from Interplay most of whom worked on the original Fallout, gotta love Troika games they only ever made three but Arcanum, The Temple of Elemental Evil, and Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines are damned good ones.
Read Mistborn.
https://hpmor.com/
How's this for consistent? Wizards used to shit themselves on purpose.
LoTR magic system is as vague as HP. The biggest issues are with the world building itself
Gandalf isn't the main character of LOTR
The only good explanation is Doylist, and it's that Rowling hypercorrects for criticism of her works in the next book, which leads to a one-book delay.
People ask why Harry never helps Ron with money after the "Ron is poor" plot in Chamber of Secrets, then Harry gives his Triwizard winnings to Fred and George in Goblet of Fire.
People start talking about how Time Travel solves all plots after Prisoner of Azkaban, then the whole supply gets destroyed in Order of the Phoenix.
Someone needs to isekai John Brown into magical Britain. There wouldn't be much slavery once he gets done, I don't wizards would do well against modernal John Brown with an assault rifle.
Didn't Harry start a whole antislavery group thing?
Hermione did, and somewhere in the lore ~~she abolished it when she became minister~~ "greatly improving life for..." is how its phrased.
Do you have a source for this? I can't find any mention of her abolishing any of her previous policy changes.
Prior to being elected minister, she did work for the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures:
After reading a ton of the wiki page, it appears I have misremembered.
I think I took "greatly improving life" to mean no longer slave, because otherwise we're just being lied to.