I thought about posting this into the ideas subforum, but it probably belongs here, for now. Any ideas that get inspired by it can have their own threads, once sufficiently developed.
Some years ago, between the publication of Order of the Phoenix and Half-Baked Plot, a person called Pharnabazus came up with a long essay called Expecto Patronus: or How the Wizarding World Really Works, which compared the apparent systems of patronage in canon up to that point, to those in Ancient Rome, and extrapolated a society from that - as well as other things seen in the books, most prominently the Statute of Secrecy, and the need to react quickly to preserve it. He came to conclusions that sadly were not borne out by the later books, but those books might have been better, if they had been (e.g. doing something with Dumbledore's Army in the alternate Book 6, though that's not an uncommon thought).
Naturally, as it was written before the last two books came out, some of the conclusions in the article are wrong, but then, it's not like we don't have any AUs here, already, and I do think that a world built from this essay could be a very interesting one.
So, have a look, and share your thoughts. Perhaps some good stories will be born from it.
Some years ago, between the publication of Order of the Phoenix and Half-Baked Plot, a person called Pharnabazus came up with a long essay called Expecto Patronus: or How the Wizarding World Really Works, which compared the apparent systems of patronage in canon up to that point, to those in Ancient Rome, and extrapolated a society from that - as well as other things seen in the books, most prominently the Statute of Secrecy, and the need to react quickly to preserve it. He came to conclusions that sadly were not borne out by the later books, but those books might have been better, if they had been (e.g. doing something with Dumbledore's Army in the alternate Book 6, though that's not an uncommon thought).
Naturally, as it was written before the last two books came out, some of the conclusions in the article are wrong, but then, it's not like we don't have any AUs here, already, and I do think that a world built from this essay could be a very interesting one.
So, have a look, and share your thoughts. Perhaps some good stories will be born from it.