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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sigurd" data-source="post: 3279488" data-attributes="member: 19412">I think you have to impose certain design decisions on the Harry Potter world pretty quick.Remember:1. You have only seen one public school for witchcraft and wizardry founded by 4 really powerful wizards long ago. At least 3 other schools exist and they were presented as exotic but of relatively the same power level.2. There is no comparing the power level of professors to students. We simply have no points of comparison except for Lupen and he's a coward.3. There seems a distaste but definite respect for areas like Nocturn Alley and extra 'finishing school' magic. Voldemort did not become what he did at Hogwarts but after he left. Clearly there are great magics outside of the finishing school.4. Rowling's world is suffused with a sort of British code of conduct. Wizards are artificially content to not expose themselves, abuse muggles, or otherwise crush us poor magic deprived blighters.5. There is a quaint contentment among the wizardly poor. Neither do they try to abuse the muggles.6. I think you have to assume that there are large tracts of extra-dimensional conservation areas. I don't think muggles can see hogwarts, or the train leaving London on tracks that emerge from an invisible platform. Taking the wizard bus as an example Rowlings world is pretty good at bending physics, light, and memory such that it doesn't really have to consider the muggles much.7. A great deal of magic has no perceived cost or component(s). I think that contributes to a wizarding economy that is almost universally self sufficient. Seemingly the rich have neat items of great power they don't use very much. The poor are not visible to judge except perhaps in the movie sequence in Nocturn Alley. The Alley sequence in inconclusive because its unclear if these are poor people or evil people.8. I think the prevalent alignment is "Lawful British".Any disagreement, any comment.</blockquote>

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