Those who were born around the turn of the millennium, even in Central and Eastern Europe, had little chance of Harry Potter as a subculture having any effect on their lives. More than 400 million copies of the entire series of books have been sold - so it is a huge achievement, which is a very rare phenomenon from a cultural history point of view, with a similar volume to that of the Beatles or Star Wars.
J.K. Rowling could recognize the need for longing and to satisfy it, she created a world that has a low entry threshold and can even satisfy slightly more serious needs if someone wants to delve a little deeper into the story. So, despite the fact that it is not a superficially structured world, we can easily feel the story of the young wizard, who does not even know at first that he is special and that he does not really belong in this mortal world.
However, the world in which stories like this take place are frameworks, magical worlds that have an undeniable culture-creating effect - fantasy has no uniform traditions, just a freely variable framework where anything can be imagined. So the consumers of fantasy culture, while imagining and reliving these worlds, are constantly renewing the genre itself, even if not indirectly.
The stages of the Time Trap magic world also try to express this generational experience, make it relatable and carry on the recently very productive fantasy culture in the form of puzzles and experiences that are tangible, encourage team play and entertain.
If you like, it's a story that never ends, only the authors change.
These fantasy worlds work so effectively because they consistently leave unexplored, obscure details in their world, which constantly provide an opportunity to shade and refine the backstory of one of the characters. This can be the case, for example, with the character of Dumbledore, everyone can decide to embrace the story in the usual over-romanticized way, or form a different image of this character based on the relationship with his brother that appears after his death.
So what is characteristic of the fantasy geek, harry potter generation? Never growing up, endless imagination, longing. The everyday practices related to this have imperceptibly become a part of our everyday life to such an extent that we probably couldn't even imagine our everyday life without these habits - who wants to go to work or school every day if it covers the whole reality... So from this point of view, the magic world is part of the process that allows us to go to work every day with mental health, because if the mental practice that creates these worlds did not exist, we would probably go crazy in the monotony... but since the magic world is also the negation of the work-based world is also in conflict with it, despite the fact that it serves it as mentioned above. It is up to us what we use this for: daily survival, answering life's big questions, building a community or even participating in the political space, as it has already appeared throughout history by anarchists building alternative communities or students occupying universities and the streets.
Everything that happens in the imagined space has an effect on reality, even if this effect is not indirect, fictitious phenomena can lie behind the events that fundamentally define our lives, which is why it is worth participating in the shaping of such cultural spaces in some form.