The hp worldbuilding as done by jk is hollow and unsatisfactory even though it’s great and fantastic for kids and uplifting it as some epitome of goodness and all that is right in writing is really kinda bad for people who want to write books for people over the age of like 15 in my ted talk I ramble about this bc I am procrastinating my own worldbuilding

Like shit man so much of the (minimal) worldbuilding in the books (and I’m saying shit about the books only bc the rest is kinda ….bad) is just……not there beyond what we see? Like fic writers can try all we want to justify some shit but the wizarding world didn’t have rules. All worlds have rules. Or, at least, all solid worlds do. And even in a chaotic world where nothing seems to follow a structure, if it’s good worldbuilding? There’s a pattern or an order to it. And like, there’s a difference between not showing your world bc exposition of that kind would be Hell and not having that behind-the-scenes in the first place. But so much of the ww makes no sense from a structure standpoint. Look, Hogwarts is apparently meant to be the only education magical kids get. That’s all that’s explicitly stated in the text. Muggleborn kids go to primary school, and we can assume magical-raised kids get tutors or are homeschooled, but there’s no explicit magical primary school. (Apparently some kids don’t know they’re even magical until they get a letter from a school?) There’s also, not any stated post-hogwarts education. It’s newts at 17 and then they’re off into the world with supposedly all they need for jobs? I can’t remember if healer training or auror training was fanon or book-canon, but even then it’s not so much post-secondary as just specialised privately-run training more than structured post-secondary education you earn a degree in. But theres no law school stated in the book, no med school, nothing. You’d think towards seventh we’d hear names of other schools, or even people to apprentice under, as students start considering their future, but no other educational institutions other than durmstrang and beauxbatons are mentioned. But that’s all fine, we can look past that a bit, to aurors and the laws that surround them. Bc child protective services? Or any magical equivalent? Doesn’t seem to exist? There doesn’t seem to be any activist groups making the news other than the order and the death eaters? Hell we only see one source of news that seemingly all of magical Britain considers legit? We get the prophet, and the quibbler. That’s it. That’s all the sources of information you get. One paper for who knows how many predominantly English speaking European countries? Theres an entire wizarding World, out there, and apparently there’s no exchange students, no transfers, not in all of Harry’s six years at Hogwarts did he witness a student coming to the school late in the term or being sorted at not-first-year? Not once was there a New Kid. Do students with parents who move just not go to the school in the country? Sure Harry was ignorant of a lot but really. The more I read as a not-kid the more I find plot holes. And that’s fine! I’m not a kid and I’m not really the intended audience! I’m two years older than Harry was when he graduated, putting me outside of the demographic! But maybe Rowling shouldn’t be revered as some all-holy master of worldbuilding and writing for adults just because we as a generation loved to read about a magical school when we were kids. Anyway thanks for coming to my ted talk