re: #53 freetoken

The more the movies go on, the less sense any of the characters make.

When Harry was 11, of course he’d be enchanted by all sorts of magical things.

But in the middle of the series, when he’s supposed to be 15 or so, why would any 15 year old boy just sit around a house all summer? At that age I was working a summer job. But somehow all the characters, not just Potter, just twiddle away their summers apparently not doing anything.

And why don’t some of the older children in his House at school travel? Don’t they go anywhere?

Sure, I know the books are written for juvenile readers, which is why the setting takes place in a school, as that is what children today know as “childhood”. Something which, though, would not have been true even 150 years ago, which, given the way the movie brings the stories to life, is about the period in which the magical world in the UK seems to be stuck - the Victorian era.

The entire Hogwarts undertaking comes off as extremely weird, in regards to how youth 11-18 years old act. It’s all too simple.

I can’t speak to the other kids’ situations, but Harry’s uncle and aunt were borderline abusive guardians and never let him out of the house, it seems. Hermione’s parents were muggles and presumably took her out on the summer holiday. Ron’s family were all wizards, so WTH knows what they did over the summer.

Besides, since when does fiction bother with characters’ off time? Did Christie tell us what Poirot did when he wasn’t working a case? Did Lee and Ditko go into the details of Peter Parker’s school day? It’s left to the reader (one presumes) to fill in those details.