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NancyLebovitz comments on May 2013 Media Thread - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 May 2013 06:17:19PM 1 point [-]

There's some overlap with Harry Potter, but it's not obvious. One thing is that the last HP novel was naturalistic in the sense of having a lot of wandering around in the woods and (if I recall correctly) bickering.

Another is that HP shows a lot of mistrust of institutions. Personal loyalty in small groups takes up the slack. In A Casual Vacancy, the one person who's maintaining loyalty in a small town dies, and we see the consequences of a moral keystone being taken away.