Harry the Auror... or not?

[ohyeah0121]

No: HPFGUIDX 75014

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dcyasser" <dcyasser at y...> 
wrote:
> --- 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

Harry is quiet used to being treated as a freak, a curiosity, and is 
too famous to make a good Auro. So I suspect he will come the new  
defence against the dark arts, at the end of book seven. He did 
enjoy his DA classes and see Lupin as the best teacher. I think he 
is destined to become the next great wizardfollowing in Dumbledores 
foot steps.