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Originally Posted by ApK
Ah, you were only commenting on Harry's comment about him being kicked out of the profession?
Then I agree, though, rather than characterizing it as a 'minor' thing, I would say "This is a major thing, but the circumstances and end-result in this instance warrant him getting a second chance."
ApK
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Yeah, as I mentioned upthread, my state's supreme court recently disbarred someone for disclosing client confidences. It was worse than this case - the lawyer wrote a book that included the confidences, rather than just disclosing them to his gossipy wife. On the other hand, no individual disclosure was as bad as this disclosure - they were about things that happened 10 years or so ago and were more along the lines of being somewhat embarrassing rather than disclosing something that the client *specifically* wanted to be kept secret.
Still, the larger difference is that this lawyer just told his wife, without suspecting that she would send a tweet to a reporter; in the case in my state, the lawyer himself made the information public.
I do feel bad for Rowlings, though - she must have thought that it would be nice to write some books and get some feedback without being known as author of HP.