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

[silmariel]

Eileen:
> 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.

Ramble warning - incoherences ahead

I've noticed but - I don't think the world outside the books is different, 
exactly, only that we don't see it in movement, and we don't see a storyline. 
We see it in a static way and we usually only receive information about one 
thing each time, we don't usually ask for interaction between magic elements, 
but in the books, they interact.

As I see the ww, is the kind of set that goes out of control (in-history) if 
not carefully controled. The magic part is *huge*: lots of spells, potions, 
artifacts, new magic only requiring *a* wizard to create it, creatures, some 
extra gifts, and available to most wizards. It's what I'd call a high-level 
magic-world.

Compare with the Force, that is quite simple (ignoring the expanded universe, 
I only consider canon the films).

But she has let enough points loose to manage the magic, and she knows a lot 
of rules we don't or just invents them as needed. For example, the 'all magic 
leaves traces', now, I have a vampire character competent in that kind of 
(blood) magic, so I know what is looking like a dumb while touching the walls 
and looking closely at every object in a room, but it came to me as a bit out 
of the blue in the book.

We have miriads of transport methods and we need qualified listies to explain 
them. It seems to me that when you need a long post to explain how a device 
works for the average reader to say 'oh, that's reasonable, I understand', 
the author isn't going for magic explanations, is going for the story.

Really, what I see is every element to develop chaos as soon as needed by the 
author.

We have 4 different ways at least to alter appearance of oneself - animagi, 
polijuice, metamorphmagi, and the block of lesser spells/potions. We now 
there is 'I+D', new communication methods being explored. We have confundus, 
imperio, and love potions. We have that curious ancestral magic. Legillimens 
and occlumens, so that we can't know what amount of information is going 
through looking at the eye. If that was not enough, we have Felix Felicis to 
add to the mess.

Add characters and background - also mostly unknown to the readers -, and put 
the world in movement. Anarchy? Sure.

I don't think I could get with dragon breeding in her out of the novels ww, 
but yes in the novels, and it would make for a story. Agreed that when the 
secondary stuff dominates, the story sinks (for my tastes).

Silmariel