Quote Originally Posted by Tyndmyr View Post
It is an adjacent universe, and the things which it criticizes or parodies are true of the original, and some of them are often mocked in other contexts by folks who are simply talking about Harry Potter books/movies.

Hell, the books and movies are also sort of like this. Adjacent, but not quite identical.
Based on what I have seen, this isn't particularly true. HPMoR seems to strawman a significant amount of canon HP to make its point.