[HPforGrownups] Re: Now Rowling's control - It's All True

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 180494

Va32h:

The point is - I don't believe for a nanosecond that JKR really meant
that Ron had two jobs or changed jobs, and simply answered the same
question, posed at two different times, with two different answers in
an attempt to explain that Ron had two jobs without actually saying
that Ron had two jobs.

If the truth is that Ron had two jobs, why didn't JKR say "he worked
at WWW, then became an Auror."? No, she said, "he worked at WWW." Then
days or weeks later in an entirely different interview said "he was an
Auror." To conclude that in both answers she really meant that Ron
had two jobs - is mental gymnastics, IMO.


Lynda:

I get your point.  Really, I do.  But I will say this.  Currently, I have 3
jobs.  At the same time. So I don't understand why Ron couldn't have more
than one job concurrently. Oh yes, I also have friends, family, and a couple
of hobbies that take up a good bit of my free time. And another thing too,
when I changed schools districts several years ago I was roundly scolded by
my family for not referring to my job as a new job, even though I simply
changed the district my check was drawn on (switched from a county to a city
district--my title was the same, my job function was the same, I was even
working in the same classroom, just for a different district so I didn't
consider it a new job, but everyone else did), so with that consideration,
perhaps members of the WW do get new jobs from time to time.

Lynda--not meaning to be abrupt, but its late and that I've had a long day.


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