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pegusus123456 posted...

How does that fit Harry Potter though?

It's just the usual problem of the protagonists having a world for them, vs. the protagonists living in a world.

Anything that isn't relevant to the hero doesn't exist, but suddenly pops put.

And everything that was supposed to be relevant before the protagonist learned of it, is suddenly useless as soon as the protagonist gets involved, because it's about them now.

How was Hogwarts supposed to function as a school, with all these different messes happening every single year?

World building, character building and plot should happen independent of each other. It should be possible to imagine the characters in a different world, the world without the special characters, and all of them without the actual plot, just living in peace. Plot should be able to progress somewhere without getting in touch with the protatognists all the time.

But in many cases, it doesn't work out.

In the case of Harry Potter it extremly doesn't work out, because thank the gods, Voldemort plans always takes the school year and Harry's classes into account.

And suddenly the whole worldbuilding crumbles as soon as you remove the anchor being (yes, I had to do this reference)

pegusus123456 posted...

That's not really true though, there are things going on in the world. The plot moves on with Harry because he's the one we're following.

Like Voldemort and the Death Eaters take control of the Ministry and Hogwarts without Harry being involved at all.

That's actually one of the few exceptions, but especially the first 5 years are terrible.

Everything happens with Harry somehow involved.