Likely not as Lewis Carroll, a mathematics Don at Oxford University wrote Alice in Wonderland mid nineteenth century.
Observing what is descending into farce, the life and times of Robber’s son could well be as fanciful as Alice tumbling down that rabbit hole nearly a century and a half ago.
As a consumer of such fantasy in the 1940s I suppose that was our “Harry Potter”.

A child of a professional university graduate who succumbed to temptation while handling thousands of dollars as accountant at a Law firm it was a surreal world he inherited whan Daddy ended up in the Big house during his own study years at Otago Uni, he did remarkably well to become elevated to Minister of Finance from much humbler beginnings including treasurer of his student body.

Then his world really descended into Alice and the sequel published a decade later with the immortal;
““When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” These are the famous words of Humpty Dumpty, a character in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (1871).

Who amongst us was watching a TV puff piece on a claimed sports mad candidate for election being presented in the Bar of a Rugby Club and asked “was his Partner Alf present” and be told straight down the barrel of the TV camera, “oh no he is elsewhere tonight”, only to have the aforementioned Bus Driver stroll casually through the camera shot carrying a Jug of ale. Now that single event was ample factual evidence that Grunter and Truth were total strangers, glibly delivered with eyes wide open.

However to have been able to be involved in the creation of the Labour Party old folks home in the CBD of Dunedin, even to become involved in appointing good friends to the University Council, there was little surprise Grunter would become the Vice Chancellor, with his BA with Hons, when many such institutions might require a PhD level of qualification. Apparently not for Grunter’s Alma mater?
Now the once proud Southern University does have some rumoured minor financial matters requiring attention so it could be that someone who did such an impressive job of guiding a little Island Nation into intractable pecuniary swamps could be the man to solve any such problems, perceived or real.
He begins with a salary double that deemed equitable for the Nations treasurer, what could possibly go wrong.