[Harry Potter] A Pseudo-Scholarly Post on the Power Structure of the Harry Potter World

JKR said that there are only three to four thousand wizards in magical Britain, which is only a little more than the population of my grandmother's village. So if you seriously discuss its power structure, you will lose. It is just a larger village, or at best, a township. On the other hand, there is no "naturally correct" political structure in the world, and it is difficult to say which country has a more bizarre political system. Even the ancient Roman Republic (the origin of many things in modern times) is relatively weird from today's perspective.

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LZ... Is he from the university law school? ? ? ? ? I am still majoring in politics... I admire you very much...

Under such conditions, if Voldemort had put forward slogans such as "Destroy the old world and build a new world" and "No representation, no taxes", it might be quite attractive. This alone makes him naturally repulsive to the likes of Malfoy.

I have been struggling with the tax issue for a long time! It's the first time I saw such a professional and detailed comment today. I'm so happy o(≧v≦)o~~ However, JKR did not write about taxes at all, but I have guessed whether the magic shop/catering and entertainment industry still has to pay a certain percentage of operating income? After all, there are still a minority of gangsters like Mundungus, and it feels like most people still have regular jobs... However, the school only relies on donations from nobles to maintain compulsory education (it seems that tuition fees have never been mentioned). Is this really a man? If there is no tax system at all, then part of Arthur Weasley's salary is equivalent to being given by the Malfoy family. Orz, why are you fighting? Hurry up and please your boss! >_< JKR's setting in this aspect is really beyond children's literature, ugh ||||

Like the textual research~ Can I ask where in the original work it is mentioned that the Ministry of Magic relies on donations to maintain operations? I just remember that St. Mungo's Hospital of Witchcraft and Wizardry often received donations, but not the Ministry of Magic...

It was only when I was writing fan fiction that I discovered that the structure of the Ministry of Magic was confusing and unclear... The Muggle British Parliament was the first to have a revolution, so it seemed conservative and backward, with incomplete reforms. The wizarding world is more conservative and backward than them... Probably because it was not until the age of Harry Potter that democratic reform really began...

Let's not talk about the Ministry of Magic, but isn't part of the Order of the Phoenix's funds embezzled from nobles donating to the school? Oh, and there are also the family properties of nobles who are friendly to the people. So being a noble is too pitiful. While constantly donating money, your social status is slowly declining. More resentful than Dou E. No wonder V, a half-crazy guy, gets so much support

I am becoming increasingly certain that the world is hopeless. LV Army can be seen as a performance art group led by an old man who attempts (and even almost succeeds) to destroy the world with mindless strategies called Make Love and War. Tea.

It feels like the HP world is more like a society based on immaterial things. The law of operation in the Muggle world is that material determines consciousness and the economic base determines the superstructure. However, in the magical world, these seem to be unimportant, so it looks more like a society composed of anarchists who care about themselves~ Wizards rely on tradition and their own ethics to maintain the normal functioning of society. If the number of wizards is very small, it can be anarchic. (The analogy is the Chinese world of immortal cultivation. Everyone is idle and wild and ignores secular affairs. Naturally, there will be little to no friction and disputes caused by the definition of the scope of interests.) But it is obvious that with the increase in the number of wizards (if there are eugenics like the Malfoy family, there will be more eugenics like the Wesley family, not to mention the continuous addition of "muggles" and mixed-bloods, and the life span of wizards is longer than that of Muggles...) As the population increases, more and more secular affairs require government, so the Ministry of Magic, the Wizengamot, and Azkaban appear to follow the trend. It's just that under the imperfect social system, the power of [tradition] is still strong, and it will continue to fight and wrestle - just like Lucius and Arthur fighting in the street, it is full of gunpowder at any time.