Harry the Auror... or not?

[angellslin]

No: HPFGUIDX 75073

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ohyeah0121" <ohyeah0121 at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dcyasser" <dcyasser at y...> 
> wrote:
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.

I doubt it. When Dumbledore defeat Grindelwald, he was about or over 
100 years old. He got many life experiences and was very advanced in 
his knowledge with magic. On the contrary, Harry is a teenage and was 
raised in an emotionally abused family. Deprived of love at his 
childlihood, forced to fight for his life at school, and shouldered 
with a mission that is too big for him at such tender age, Harry is 
on a path to a tragic hero, rather than a wise old man. After all, 
that's my thought only. 


Angel