YA academy fantasy will trump the Harry Potter TV Series

The Harry Potter TV series recently got ratioed on YouTube. Fans are speaking their displeasure, so I gave them something they can look forward to.

Don’t call me woke because I rolled with a strong female protagonist who shows up dudes in a co-ed sport. Yote Diamondback’s no men-hating girl boss. She plays second-fiddle to her sister, and gets hit with a rejection letter to an elitist elemental academy. That alone puts her behind the eight-ball.

Before I get into the skinny of what makes my upcoming young adult academy fantasy series AnaCap fiction, you need to know Yote Diamondback.

Here’s the rundown:

She’s the sweetest Slytherin you’d ever meet if she went to Hogwarts. Sweet because she comes across as a stereotypical “nice girl,” but beneath the surface, you’ll see the serpent rising in her.

Yote’s got a thirst to prove herself against her sister, and perpetually losing to Jett in duels torments her. She’d rather date the son of a rich man than the nice-guy friend she made during her first jaunt at Arcane. Yote’s also obsessed with wearing designer shoes—even if she’s also a hoodie-and-jeans girl.

She sees second place as the “first loser,” regardless of how much competition she faces. Well, unless she’s playing box thrashball. She and her love interest are fine with losing as long as their stats look good.

I like to think of her as a trifecta between Harry Potter (a Gryffindor), Pansy Parkinson (a Slytherin), and Tom Riddle (also a Slytherin). Hell, her birthday is December 31st, which she shares with Riddle.

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A Slytherin-like protagonist was no accident

One reason I made Yote’s character as Slytherin-like as possible is because it would draw in the haters. An anarcho-capitalist’s version of a series Harry Potter inspired could use characters who’d fit into any House. But a Slytherin-like protagonist—and “good guys” all likened to Slytherin—is a pleasant taste of irony.

Casual fans view Slytherin as the “bad house,” and I couldn’t tell you how many people frown on anarcho-capitalism as “greedy.” So, let’s not disappoint them. But little do many of those casual fans know—many Slytherins aren’t dark.

Hell, Merlin himself was a Slytherin, and he’s known as the Greatest Wizard of All-Time. Ditto for Andromeda Tonks—the sister of Bellatrix Lestrange and Narcissa Malfoy. But of course, Slytherin carries its awful reputation because of its blood purity fanaticism among a contingent of them and that it produces a disproportionate number of dark wizards.

While I’ve yet to meet an AnaCap who’d love nothing more than to gain influence and exert power over people—at least in practice—the reputation lingers. What kind of person completely rejects the State’s existence? Must be someone who’d crave a career ripping people off. Let alone the fact that the consumer market would be the ultimate regulator—not a force-driven monopoly that also monopolizes violence and taxation.

There was irony here. So Slytherin it was. I have other reasons behind making Yote and most of her gang of Slytherin equivalents—known as Scorpiis—but irony was my go-to.

What makes The Arcane Prophecy an anarcho-capitalist’s paradise?

What doesn’t? Its setting is an exact blueprint based on Bob Murphy’s book, Chaos Theory. There is no State—just checks and balances between individuals, small businesses, and even the occasional large company like Sharpe Defense.

Everything is privately-owned and maintained—the roads, the academy and its 32 schools, the various courts, law enforcement departments, defense contractors, you name them. For Yote, it’s frightening, and she pictures armed guards on every street corner. Or, at least guards who’d use elemental magic on her in a heartbeat.

But she finds out that’s not the case. People are free to produce without restraint. The good actors win and the bad actors fall by the wayside. Some readers may ask, “But TC, how do you keep groups of businesses from cartelizing and favoring one another? Or, if they bribed the courts or something crazy like that?”

I could write an entire essay on it, but Murphy did the work already, so please go read Chaos Theory or find it in audio because I’d be writing a good 10,000-plus words and I’m sure none of you need to see me plagiarizing Murphy. A lot of people have “cartel” or even “Mafia” in their minds—especially if they read books on the subjects. Murphy debunks all those claims.

You won’t need to reject the State to love The Arcane Prophecy

You could get through The Arcane Prophecy without even realizing the work is a Harry Potter-inspired novel with an anarcho-capitalist mindset. You may say, “Yeah, this is different and that’s different.” But it’s not like I’m holding up a signpost in the middle of the plot and screaming “THIS IS ANARCHO-CAPITALISM!”

There’s enough action and enough bad actors in the work for a statist—regardless of their level of statism—to say, “Hey, TC’s not creating utopian fiction.”

And they’re right. I may be an anarcho-capitalist, but I’ll never claim it’s the key to a flawless utopia. Complete, perfect “utopias” don’t exist, and even AnaCaps are fooling themselves if they think otherwise.

So don’t think of this book as preachy, or that old TC’s cherry-picking for utopian fiction here. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, one reason I wrote The Arcane Prophecy is because I want to highlight problems an anarcho-capitalist society would face, and how to best address—not always solve—each problem.

The term starts on September 1st…

Yup, that’s another nod to the Harry Potter universe. But had I known how woke the TV series could get beyond just Black Snape, I may’ve decided to launch it on Christmas Day.

Still, I’m holding out hope that the series won’t be woke—even if I’m losing hope by the second following what was a badass trailer minus Snape.

So the term will begin on September 1st. You can catch Yote then, or you can check out the three-chapter sample that has a little prize in the back matter. Be sure to check it out and take advantage of that offer.

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