James and Lily's Occupations

[corinthum]

No: HPFGUIDX 76644

Joe asked:

> I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts about what James and 
> Lily's occupations were.  Are we to assume that they were Aurors?  I 
> remember vaguely in an interview with J.K. a long time ago, she said 
> that she couldn't say what there occupations were because it would be 
> revealed later on.  Now we know that they have thrice defeated He who 
> blah blah blah but does that neccessarily mean that they were 
> Aurors.  I also remember in that interview that J.K said that James 
> inherited a lot of money so he didn't have to have a real high paying 
> job. Any thoughts?

I don't know what their jobs were, but I'm pretty sure they weren't
Aurors.  First of all, the Auror training program seems to be pretty
intensive, and James and Lily were between two and four years out of
Hogwarts when they died.  Seems a pretty short time period to complete
training and on top of that see enough action to defeat Voldemort
three times.  Also, the Order members who were Aurors have been
identified as such repetitively.  Why would everyone fail to mention
this fact when talking about James' and Lily's involvement in VW1?  It
would be a natural point to bring up, but no one has.  Makes me think
they were doing something either much more secretive or completely
unrelated when the war began.

-Corinth