I personally think that it’s all part of how effed up, poorly organised, precarious, and yet entitled and overconfident the WW is, and how desperately in need of change and progress, or even revolution, it is. But of course the author doesn’t agree with me about this and it will never happen.
In a certain way, the WW is very realistic because it’s a small community of inward looking people who’ve always considered themselves superior to everyone else they share the world with, and entitled to take what they like from it and ignore the rest. IIRC the entire population of the UK WW is smaller than an average English town (50k people, say) and its politics and self-aggrandisement remind me of parish and town councils in the Home Counties which I had to deal with in my work in the past. Hogwarts is the size of a small secondary school because it contains all the teenagers in said small town. This is honestly a very toxic environment, the sort that grows white supremacy and grievance like darkness grows mushrooms. The WW is overdue for a reckoning and the books don’t deliver, and I doubt any future media will.
I suppose one thing that’s interesting about this series is whether it’s explicitly and clearly set in the 1980s as the books were, and to what degree the writing leans into that, lampshading how different things were then and how they’ve changed. Many media made now but set then (see The Gold, for instance) can’t help but do this. But I doubt it, since the author is said to have a very solidly intervening hand.
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