Harry the Auror... or not?

[dcyasser]

No: HPFGUIDX 74928

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> 
> 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. <snip>  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). <snip>  
Harry is going to come out of this deeply scared and tramatized, and
> most critically, brutally famous. <more snip> Everywhere he
> goes, everything he does, will mean countless people are going to 
be epending 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


This was an excellent post and I had a hard time snipping! Your 
ideas about post-confrontation Harry made me copy this post from 
another thread because I think it fits here with 
ideas about Harry's future. 

I don't think Auror will be Harry's career choice, because I do 
not believe he will wish to pursue dark wizards, however, I also 
don't believe he will be forever beleaguered by distress calls. My 
reference point is the other character we know who is famous for 
defeating a dark wizard: one Albus Dumbledore. Perhaps that plays 
into DD's overprotection of Harry - he knows from personal 
experience what Harry may face, even beyond the ultimate encouter 
with LV. I would like to know more about DD's defeat of Grindelwald 
and hope JKR shares it with us. Because Hermione hasn't quoted it to 
us from a history book (yet) I wonder if it is public knowledge: how 
did Dumbledore defeat Grindelwald? It had to have been a monumental 
moment in wizarding history, yet DD is not obviously scarred, a 
la Moody; he is sane, if whimsical; he has obviously been able to 
lead a productive and healthy life following that confrontation and 
victory, and he is certainly in possesion of his powers, enough to 
make LV tremble in his booties. Early on in the series he does have 
Fudge calling on him constantly for advice, and he doe head up both 
incarnations of the Order, but otherwise he seems to live the 
balanced, even somewhat serene headmaster ife, even if he is the 
greatest sorcerer in the world.  We tend to imagine Harry post-LV as 
either dead, scarred, without magic, estranged from the magical 
world; or just really unhappy. Yet we and Harry have to look at DD 
as a role model in evil-wizard-battling; perhaps DD was even 
prophesied to defeat Grindelwald, we don't know. But I expect more 
exposition on DD's personal history as a guidepost for what Harry 
may or may not be able to accomplish vs LV, and as to what the 
personal cost of it may be to Harry.  Does it have to end with Harry 
destroyed, literally or figuratively, or does  DD have other tricks 
up his sleeve to mentor Harry? 
cheers
dc