I'm quite sure she's instantly recognisable to anyone who's read a book in their lives and has more money than she'd ever know what to do with...

 

I wouldn't say that Voldemort's effect was felt worldwide exactly, but that the public would love his story and his image very much. they don't need to have felt the Death Eaters oppression for that.

 

Seriously, how is Rita Skeeter still alive? Hell, I don't understand how she survived even the first war when Voldemort was around.

 

Same way Pettigrew survived I guess.

 

The british minister could bully out the Chief Warlock of the International Confederation of Wizards.

The headmaster of Durmstrang is an escaped death eater.
Generally, Madam Maxime is shown as a peer of Hagrid, Kakaroff as a peer of Snapes. Both below their counterpart in britain, Dumbledore.

Well that and general lack of international response - it can't be that hard to escape from britain and go to the mainland - leads me to believe englands basically the center of the magical world in canon.

 

You say that as though it's a revelation, but we all know that the universe revolves around England.

Merely a case of fiction emulating reality.

 

Including the part where England loses in the first round of the world cup.

 

Maybe if they moved on to a real sport, like quodpot...

 

Is that the one where they have to catch falling boulders?

 

Yeah and people still haven't stopped going on about it. My case in point.

 

I wasn't sure if I should add it here, but J.K has apparently written another short story, this one on Celestina Warbeck, has anyone read it?

 

Its on pottermore, I wouldnt say a short story really, its the same size as a lot of the pieces she puts up there.

 

Yeah, it is not a short story at all.

 

And answers the question of marriage, not being some kind of binding contract in magical world, like shown in some fanfics.

 

Unless, of course, the marriage involved a binding contract...

 

Huh, makes me curious what that's all about.

 

They wanted to restrict the usage of the large, gaudy, American, gourd, in favor of a return to the traditional turnip Jack O' Lantern.

Unfortunately, it resulted in too many self-inflicted knife wounds, seeing as turnips are the next hardest substance to adamantium.

 

Fucking turnips