What would the wizarding world look like in 2017?

[author_by_night]

September 1, 2017 - nineteen years later.

Since some of my friends are still reading the books, I'm putting the rest of this under a cut. 


You guys tell me what the wizarding world would look like.

Some possible starters:

- How would tech-savvy Muggleborns deal with the tech-nonexistent Wizarding World?

- Would Wizards and Witches have their own equivalents of what we have?


- How did the characters change? How did they not change? What are the trio and Ginny like as parents? As coworkers and employees? As people?

- What is the relationship between Slytherin and the rest of the Houses? (Whether or not you factor in The Cursed Child.)

Looking forward to hearing/reading what everyone thinks! And don't feel you have to limit yourselves to those questions - or even answer them at all.

Comments

[hildigunnur]

Yeah, I would imagine that they would find ways to make electronic technology work better in the Wizarding World or figure out some kind of equivalent. Especially when it comes to communication.

I've just finished reading The Cursed Child (first time I've read the play through but I did see it a year ago) and I like the version of the trio and Ginny we get there. Ron is perhaps a little more light-hearted than I would have imagined but he seems like a great father and a favorite among his nieces and nephews. The whole thing of the Potter household being sugar-free, suggests that Ginny is slightly more uptight than I'd thought but for the most part, I think my mental image kind of matches up with what we saw in The Cursed Child. I saw this post about Harry, Ginny and their kids on tumblr today and I thought it was great. I think it captures the fact that the way a child is alike their parent, can often be what a parent struggles with (hence Harry and Albus in The Cursed Child).

My guess is that there might have been a more of a thaw in the relationship between Slytherin and the other houses in the years after Voldemort's fall. The past isn't forgotten though, this is always the house with the reputation of championing purebloods and where Voldemort was housed.

[author_by_night]

I found it odd that Ginny would be uptight, considering her personality in the books. But then, maybe it's a bit fitting? After all, she was hoodwinked by Voldie. Maybe she's just a bit extra cautious with her kids, figuring when they're old enough to use extendable ears without her permission, they will, but while they're still young and impressionable she needs to be there. I dunno. That's not how I see her as an adult at all, though.

I think you're probably about right about Houses.

[hildigunnur]

Yeah, I did feel that The Cursed Child painted a little more high-strung than I'd imagine her as an adult. I mean, I do think she's the type to shout at her kids a bit (way less at Albus than the other two though) but ultimately she wouldn't be particularly strict and definitely not the type to have a sugar-free household. It was Harry who mentioned it in the Cursed Child - it might have been some kind of attempt at the "ball'n'chain" sort of thing and if so, ugh! There isn't anything else in the play that suggests that Harry finds Ginny restrictive and that would definitely not be my idea of their relationship as the grown-up parents of three children.