Rise of the next Dark Lord?

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 76668

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "daluben4" <daluben4 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> I can't imagine Harry retiring in the country at the ripe old age 
of 
> 17.  That'd have to get boring after about 20 years, right?

Right, but after defeating Voldemort and probably losing many of his 
friends and undergoing lots of suffering I think the kid definitely 
needs a vacation.
 
> As for the Auror thing, I think JKR is toying with us.  IMO, it's 
too 
> obvious.  I think it will stay around as a potential career, at 
least 
> in book 6, but I don't think that's where he'll end up.  Partly, 
> that's because I *don't* think there will be a post-Voldemort super-
> villain right at the end of the series (although I also don't think 
> we'll be left with the impression that evil is banished forever).

However there would still be the problem of hunting down the 
remaining DEs and Voldemort supporters like in the last war. If 
anything I think the position of auror will be an interim job that he 
could use to get more experience on fighting the dark arts and help 
him in becoming the next Dumbledore or the great wizard that Riddle 
would have become if he  didn't go to the dark side.

> All that to say, I think Harry could end up DADA teacher at 
> Hogwarts.  We've seen some hints that he has talent in this area, 
in 
> fact I even saw a comment from a teacher somewhere (probably on 
TLC!)
> saying that he used good technique in the DA sessions. 

Couldn't possibly be a livejournal could it?

> *and* stay at Hogwarts, the first real home he has ever known.  

That just makes him seem psychologically messed up and unable to move 
on with life. However i can certainly see the merits of him becoming 
the next dada teacher since he would be training a new generation of 
wizards to fight the next dark lord.