JKR the writer vs. JKR the person RE: [the_old_crowd] Re: Exceeds Expectations???

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Eileen Rebstock" 
<erebstock at ...> wrote:
>

> In general, though, has anyone else noticed that Rowling is a lot 
less
> hard-nosed about her imaginary world outside the books than in 
them? The
> wizarding world almost seems sensible when she's doing interviews,
> answering questions, or writing secondary canon stuff 
like 'Fantastic
> Beasts.' Then you get into the books and it's all very 
dysfunctional,
> anarchic etc.
> 
> For example, I can't imagine that JKR *outside the books* would 
endorse
> officials taking bribes, yet Arthur Weasley gets tickets to the 
World
> Cup in return for not prosecuting Otto Bagman, and the narrative 
view of
> Arthur takes this as a commonplace not worth remark.

Just because she writes about this, or considers it a commonplace 
occurance in politics (either *inside* or *outside* the books), or 
even thinks it's amusing, doesn't mean that she condones it or 
thinks that it's the way political systems *should* work.

JMC