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May. 19th, 2018 04:18 pmSpartacus is still reading Harry Potter books, off and on; he has read all of them twice, I think, expcept for Deathly Hallows, which he hasn't even started. He keeps putting it off, and anyway we've taken a break to read some of Caroline Lawrence's Roman Mysteries, because we are going to Rome in a week or two.
He has many, many worldbuilding questions, though. We've already spent quite a long time discussing wizarding demography -- if there are only about 40 to 50 students in each year at Hogwarts, and most British wizarding children attend Hogwarts, then the total wizarding population of Britain can't be much bigger than our rather small suburb. But then again, he also noticed in one of Harry's quidditch games that there ware 200 people cheering for Slytherin, which suggests a much larger student body. Or maybe non-students attend games?
He is also convinced that there are far more than three wizarding schools in Europe, and many more all over the world -- I have not mentioned what I have heard of the Pottermore canon, since it is stupid canon and I have elected to ignore it -- since as far as he's concerned every medieval European nation had to have at least one magical school and probably more. I have lost track of how many he thinks there were in the Holy Roman Empire, for example. He would also like to know where Durmstrang is, although I pointed out that cononically no one knows since it's unplottable.
Among the other questions he has raised is religion; he's convinced that wizards have their own secret religion.
It's all very fun to watch. I fear that the apple has not fallen very far from the tree of fannish over-engagement, though.
He has many, many worldbuilding questions, though. We've already spent quite a long time discussing wizarding demography -- if there are only about 40 to 50 students in each year at Hogwarts, and most British wizarding children attend Hogwarts, then the total wizarding population of Britain can't be much bigger than our rather small suburb. But then again, he also noticed in one of Harry's quidditch games that there ware 200 people cheering for Slytherin, which suggests a much larger student body. Or maybe non-students attend games?
He is also convinced that there are far more than three wizarding schools in Europe, and many more all over the world -- I have not mentioned what I have heard of the Pottermore canon, since it is stupid canon and I have elected to ignore it -- since as far as he's concerned every medieval European nation had to have at least one magical school and probably more. I have lost track of how many he thinks there were in the Holy Roman Empire, for example. He would also like to know where Durmstrang is, although I pointed out that cononically no one knows since it's unplottable.
Among the other questions he has raised is religion; he's convinced that wizards have their own secret religion.
It's all very fun to watch. I fear that the apple has not fallen very far from the tree of fannish over-engagement, though.
