Auror Trio?

[davewitley]

No: HPFGUIDX 39001

We have had some discussion about which of the trio would make good 
aurors, and whether Crouch's comments on this can be trusted.  I like 
Penny's suggestion that JKR has got her wires crossed between Crouch 
acting in Moody's character and his general untrustworthiness.  (I 
also liked the idea somebody put forward some months ago that the 
three of them together would make a good auror.)

Here's my take on aurors in GOF.

It seems pretty clear to me on the first reading of GOF that we are 
intended to figure that Ron may be left out in the auror stakes, and 
that there is a potential source of tension here.  If in a future 
book real Moody endorses the sort of thinking put out by Crouch then 
that will put pressure on Ron - he will have yet another ground for 
jealousy of H&H.

That 'Moody' is Crouch puts a layer of uncertainty on this as we have 
discussed, however, I think to discuss which of them are good aurors 
is to fall into JKR's trap.

To me the question raised by GOF is: is it desirable to (want to) be 
an auror?

Cindy's humerous list of auror characteristics shows pretty clearly 
that the aurors are an ambiguous lot:  Moody is on the side of good, 
but a sinister presence in the Pensieve scene who distances himself 
from Dumbledore's attitudes on a point as crucial as whether Snape 
should have a second chance.  Frank Longbottom was popular - but so 
was Bagman and so, we assume, is Lockhart.  Crouch Sr has shown how 
easy they are to corrupt - once he authorised the use of the curses 
some at least (by contrast with Moody) did not try very hard to avoid 
using them.

So the real irony of Crouch's encouragements to Harry and Hermione, 
and his implicit playing on Ron's envy, may be that really his 
compliments are no compliment at all.  After all, if (as on a number 
of other occasions) Crouch can have had no love for aurors.

This is where I like the 'trio is an auror' theory: all three 
contribute in their own way to the fight against evil.  They owe 
nothing to MOM structures or thinking - why should they start to buy 
into something that has so signally failed the WW?

Finally, may I add to Pippin's list of 'Ron moments': when Harry is 
being interrogated by Snape and Lupin, Ron bursts in and immediately 
says something like 'I gave Harry those things' - either he has had 
the journey back from Hogsmeade to do a faultless bit of analysis, or 
he intuitively sums up the situation when he arrives.

David