In the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, the fictional "magic world" and the so-called "real world" are in the same space-time dimension, and there is no clear dividing line between them. Many important stories happened here, such as King's Cross Station leading to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, leaky cauldron leading to diagon alley, and even directly on the streets of London, England. All the characters in the story, whether wizards or muggles, whether magical animals or ordinary creatures, live in the same open time and space.

Therefore, unlike the overhead world with medieval charm in the classic fantasy novel, Rowling's world outlook has obtained a lot of materials and resources from the long-standing witchcraft culture, Celtic culture, Christian culture and medieval alchemy, but the magical world of Harry Potter is more like the subtle deformation of the modern world we are familiar with. We can call this kind of deformation "singular treatment with allegorical color"

● The similarities between Rowling's magical world setting and the modern world.

As long as you read Harry Potter carefully, you will find that the magical world created by Rowling has many similarities with the modern world.

For example, the wizarding world will divide administrative regions according to the borders of the modern world. Each administrative region has a government agency called the Ministry of Magic, with a clear division of labor, a complete bureaucratic organization, internal governance in accordance with a standardized legal system, and international cooperation with the Ministry of Magic of other countries.

Compared with the feudal kingdoms in Middle-earth and Westeros, this is undoubtedly a political system closer to modern society, and we can regard it as J.K. Rowling's playful imitation of modern government.

Moreover, many important elements of the world outlook in the story, such as wiesenthal Court, Azkaban Prison, Gringotts Bank, St. Mungo Hospital, Quidditch World Cup, daily prophet and Wizarding Radio, can also be regarded as Rowling's parody of modern society.

Of course, in this series of settings, the most impressive is the setting of "magic school". As a training center for wizards,