Can’t the wizards just summon unlimited food and drink? Like what kind of powers do these silly kids have if they can’t even do the shit a basic first circle mage can do in D&D?
In Rowling’s world, magic is subservient to capitalism. That’s not an exaggeration, there are “natural laws of magic” that say magic can’t create money, food or shelter, presumably as a way of explaining why poverty is still a thing. She needed the Weasleys to be poor for the jokes.
And then teleported directly onto the table, giving the illusion of magical provenance and accidentally providing a hilariously pointed depiction of commodity fetishism
In absolutely no fairness to Jujutsu Kaisen Rowling, she probably hadn’t come up with the enslaved house elves in the first book, they only come up in the second and then are retroactively explained to be responsible for the kitchen (and maybe some other tasks?) at the school. So she’s a hack definitely she had no plan when writing any of the first four-or-so books but retconned and added so many world building elements and plot points as she continued to write.
I think the podcast I remember hearing this first on was the Shrieking Shack podcast or something I think it was called? I’ll try to remember the name
Kind of? It’s explicitly stated that magic cannot make food from thin air. However, they apparently can multiply it, teleport it if they know the location of it, or cook with magic.
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Can’t the wizards just summon unlimited food and drink? Like what kind of powers do these silly kids have if they can’t even do the shit a basic first circle mage can do in D&D?
In Rowling’s world, magic is subservient to capitalism. That’s not an exaggeration, there are “natural laws of magic” that say magic can’t create money, food or shelter, presumably as a way of explaining why poverty is still a thing. She needed the Weasleys to be poor for the jokes.
The food is made by enslaved elves
And then teleported directly onto the table, giving the illusion of magical provenance and accidentally providing a hilariously pointed depiction of commodity fetishism
What a hackjob writer she is.
In absolutely no fairness to Jujutsu Kaisen Rowling, she probably hadn’t come up with the enslaved house elves in the first book, they only come up in the second and then are retroactively explained to be responsible for the kitchen (and maybe some other tasks?) at the school. So she’s a hack definitely she had no plan when writing any of the first four-or-so books but retconned and added so many
world building elements and plot points as she continued to write.
I think the podcast I remember hearing this first on was the Shrieking Shack podcast or something I think it was called? I’ll try to remember the name
Ayup. Shrieking Shack podcast
Kind of? It’s explicitly stated that magic cannot make food from thin air. However, they apparently can multiply it, teleport it if they know the location of it, or cook with magic.
It’s also shown that Mrs. Weasley can conjure food, I believe she creates sauce with her wand. So it’s just BS.