The wizarding world in 2097

[foretinterdite]

I was wondering what JKR’s world would look like, 100 years after the second victory over Voldemort.  Because it's been an angsty couple of weeks, I made a lot of depressing assumptions and wrote this drabble.  I think there are a lot of unanswered questions about the future of their world, a subset of which I decided to wrestle with rather than

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[tailoredshirt]

Well, the answer to all of these questions is that there is no answer because JKR didn't exactly give us one. Lots of holes that sort of got glossed over along the way. But re: the 11-year-old dropouts - I would guess that the Headmaster would provide adequate cover for these situations, which fake grade reports and all that. Or at least some sort of charm that makes you skip over that child and not notice them? I'm sure that Dumbledore at least would have been clever enough to come up with something.

And honestly, I'm not smart enough or worldly enough to answer the rest. But here's a Ron solidarity gesture for your critique of the epilogue.

[shes_gone]

*agrees with Kendall because you're apparantly too smart for me and this post made my head spin*

But I completely agree that the Epilogue was pretty much the most unrealistic thing ever.

[foretinterdite]

I'm probably just over analyzing again.

Grad school has seriously reduced my ability to communicate with people not professionally involved in public policy or international affairs.

[foretinterdite]

Yeah. I guess a lot of it comes down to how magic interacts with technology. Because I totally get the these are not the droids you're looking for thing. But I'm not sure how you wave a wand at a database.

[ms_worplesdon]

They're going to need to expand the dorms a bit at Hogwarts.

the creepy guy in the booth who’s currently following youth of color and fit young women with the camera

Yuck. But that's a good question, really. I think they'll have to make Muggle Studies a requirement, and have more undercover wizards in Muggle government/civil services.

What will Muggle deterring charms mean to a second lieutenant in a tank, with a compass bearing and GPS?

I have wondered the same thing. There will come a time when people won't trust it if it doesn't show up on google earth.

As for keeping up with the modern world, that's where muggle-borns are invaluable. They've got to embrace the Muggle world in order to cope with all of this.

And what Kendall said.

[foretinterdite]

There will come a time when people won't trust it if it doesn't show up on google earth. Had you seen where Dick Cheney had the VP's residence blurred out on Google Earth?

As for keeping up with the modern world, that's where muggle-borns are invaluable. They've got to embrace the Muggle world in order to cope with all of this. This is where I think they get tripped up by the age thing. Because their senior leadership is really senior and conservative. Much more so than even the House of Lords. To a certain extent, I think JKR fudged a little by putting Umbridge in a position of power as a woman, as that felt out of place with the otherwise old and reactionary government.

I basically see them as a government made of people like the grandmother that you don't talk to about minorities. She's not going to change who she is.

[ms_worplesdon]

Did he really? Is the White House like that, too?

But wasn't Umbridge pretty old fashioned and conservative? Seems like she'd fit right in there.

*ponders*

[foretinterdite]

Nope. Just the VP's residence. Now that you have dsl (yay!), here's the relevant Daily Show clip.

But wasn't Umbridge pretty old fashioned and conservative? Seems like she'd fit right in there. I agree with you there, but I get the feeling from the other elements of wizarding society that they're still 50 odd years away from women's suffrage.

*needs political slash icons, but who to slash John Edwards with?*