Harry the Auror... or not?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 74897

True, Harry has expressed an interest in being a Auror. But... the
average kid that age thinks of being a fireman, policeman, astronaut,
rock star, movie star, etc... because they are all glamorous and
exciting, and of course, the particular desired professions changes
several times a day. 

So, it is reasonable that Auror seems dangerous and exciting now, but
how is Harry going to feel after a few more encounters with Death
Eaters and Voldemort, and after the ULTIMATE encounter with Voldemort?

These encounters at the end of each book are brutal. Harry is a
complete mess after each of them and usually spends a significant
amount of time in the hospital. Now on top of the brutality and trama
he has and will endure from these encounters, Dumbledore has told
Harry it must end with him being murdered or commiting murder
(murder=Harry's own words). Plus, Dumbledore and circumstances have in
essence told Harry that the weigh of the world, more specifically the
fate and lives of the wizard world, are resting on his shoulders.
So... no pressure there Harry. 

How much can one little boy be asked to bare? Especially, when he is
so poorly supported; emotionally, physically, intellectually, and
magically.

I also predict that the tramatic and brutal encounters we've seen so
far are going to pale in comparison to what Harry has to face in the
next two books. 

After living throught hell, do you really think Harry wants to make
living in hell his profession? Not me.

Harry is going to come out of this deeply scared and tramatized, and
most critically, brutally famous. If he becomes an Auror, every wizard
with a problem is going to demand that the famous Harry Potter come
and solve it. Once word spreads, I can see calls coming in to the
Ministry from all over the world, begging for them to send Harry
Potter to save them from one form of evil or another. Those
unrelenting demands will mean that Harry is doomed to spending his
life under the constant threat of danger and death. Everywhere he
goes, everything he does, will mean countless people are going to be
depending on him to save them. 

As an Auror, Harry will be like Atlas, doomed to forever carry the
weight of the world on his shoulders, but unlike Atlas, Harry is not a
supernatural being. No mere mortal can carry that much weight for that
long without it eventually crushing him; without it eventually
destroying him.

No, I think once all is said and done, Harry will have more than his
fill of dark wizard fighting, and will be more content to live a
quiet, benevolent, unassuming life. 

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

bboy_mn