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I saw a Fun Fact and an Idea Came Up -
Levina Wolff - August 5, 2025
(August 1, 2025 – 1:07 PM)Elias Grimstone Wrote: H. G. Wells' post-apocalyptic sci-fi novella The Time Machine was published this year in 1895!
Quote:...about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time.
A work of future history and speculative evolution, The Time Machine is interpreted in modern times as a commentary on the increasing inequality and class divisions of Wells's era, which he projects as giving rise to two separate human species: the fair, childlike Eloi, and the savage, simian Morlocks, distant descendants of the contemporary upper and lower classes respectively.
yes, yes he was a socialist
(and/or some wizarding author could have written a magical equivalent called "The Time Turner" with some post-apocalyptic envisioning of the distant future and collapse of wizarding society, lol)
Could we site-canon H.G. Wells as a muggleborn and have this actually be a case of "The Time Turner" being published a few years back and H.G. Wells getting the authors permission to make it muggle-centric? Like, this is the only work he collaborated in this way on, he would not be playable, but the other author one day
could be?
RE: I saw a Fun Fact and an Idea Came Up -
Cassius Lestrange - August 5, 2025
Our preference is generally to avoid tying real people to the wizarding world/site canon, so while a magical author could definitely be
inspired by Wells (and eventually played), we're not going to tie Wells to Charming /being a muggleborn/having a relationship with this person!