A quick checklist against recurring errors.

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As Fest Season seems to be so busy no one stops to Britpick.

Comments

Re: Ah.

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'll be 44 on my next birthday and I've lived in the UK for almost fifteen years. From my perspective, it's changed immeasurably during that time, the encroachment of American culture and globalisation in general the cause of much of it.

I feel the rate of change in the wizarding world would be relatively slow, however. It's a very, very old culture that had remained separate from the Muggle world for centuries. I don't think a handful of teenagers, however heroic and lauded, are going to radically change it into an unrecognisable place. It would change, but slowly and in its own way, rather than a way that mirrors the real British world. The Wizengamot is not Parliament, Quidditch is not cricket, although they may have been created as social satires of such.

Isn't it fun - these various views, I mean.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

It'd be damned boring if everyone thought the same thing, after all.

I rather think that absent wars and insurrections, the pace of change IS slow; as to the form that that change shd take, I think it supportable in canon to argue either way, although it doesn't do to be too dug-in abt this sort of thing, really. It's these differing views and tastes and what not that make fandom interesting, isn't it - although we've strayed rather far here from where we began.

Re: Isn't it fun - these various views, I mean.

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree completely. We should all feel free to write however we like, stressing whichever specific aspects of the world/story/characters/culture about which we're writing we like.

Oh, quite.

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For example, choosing to follow Tottenham's match, wh is now under way, even when tempted by the empyrean of Potterish speculation - wh I must now do.