There is no way that any citizen of a modern democracy could have written the courtroom scene in Order of the Phoenix and thought well of the society that produced it. That’s when I started to really see how rotten the country was. Similarly, look at the utter incompetence of the politicians—they’re worse than ours, and that takes some doing. There’s enough other examples scattered throughout that I cannot believe that they were placed there unconsciously.
Politics and litigation are almost totally incomprehensible to the average citizen. Therefore, it seems very plausible to me that Rowling thought she was depicting something analogous to what actually happens. Maybe not what happens frequently, but happens occasionally in a country the size of Magical Britain.
I think she’s wrong to think her depictions were realistic, but that’s a separate issue.
I don’t know, Magical Britain is the size of a small town. It doesn’t seem unreasonable that small towns with no higher authority to answer to would devolve into that.
It’s an entirely plausible legal process...for a shitty country stuck in the Middle Ages. If she’s so much as watched an episode of Matlock, she’d be aware of how far outside the realm of modern legal procedure it is.
Politics and litigation are almost totally incomprehensible to the average citizen. Therefore, it seems very plausible to me that Rowling thought she was depicting something analogous to what actually happens. Maybe not what happens frequently, but happens occasionally in a country the size of Magical Britain.
I think she’s wrong to think her depictions were realistic, but that’s a separate issue.
I don’t know, Magical Britain is the size of a small town. It doesn’t seem unreasonable that small towns with no higher authority to answer to would devolve into that.
If she intended that to be accurate, then she makes CSI look well-researched.
I think she intended it to be plausible. Weren’t we just discussing what a terrible worldbuilder Rowling is?
It’s an entirely plausible legal process...for a shitty country stuck in the Middle Ages. If she’s so much as watched an episode of Matlock, she’d be aware of how far outside the realm of modern legal procedure it is.