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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8680850" data-attributes="member: 4937">"Academies of the Arcane offers some strange setting ideas that give magic flavor above and beyond what one might expect in a magic school book."And also perhaps misses the point that part of what made HP so compelling is that it was combined the fantastic with the utterly mundane so well.  The classic British boarding school with its four-color coded houses is familiar to anyone who went through the upper-class British school system, and there is slice of mundane school life drama that could come from a Japanese anime or manga.  Quidditch while terribly written as a game does a fantastic job of standing in for the British love of association football, and all the characters are just as much dealing with growing up and going through puberty as they are stopping the Dark Lord.</blockquote>