So I’m not really a noir person (nothing like grad school to ruin a genre for you) and I’m definitely a mystery person and I always hunger for literary critiques of Harry Potter that are also their own books because Gailey is very obviously responding to the quaintness of the Potterverse and also totally doing her own thing by creating a version that is...more realistic is the wrong term, but is also very much true. There just isn’t enough high school in Harry Potter.
And so many bad decisions. So very many. Welcome to noir.