James and Lily's Occupations

[Trish]

No: HPFGUIDX 76801

 
> I have always wondered why Harry has not asked anyone what his 
> parents did for a living.  I would like to hear JKR's reason for 
his 
> lack of curiousity there.  Since book four, I have thought the 
> obvious - that the Potters were Aurors.  But since everyone seems 
to 
> be so secretive about them, maybe James and/or Lily worked for the 
> Department of Mysteries.  If one or both of them were Unspeakables, 
> maybe that explains why no one ever talks about J&L's careers - no 
> one really knows what the Unspeakables actually do.  Just a 
thought..
> 
> Brookeshanks

It has always bothered me that Harry does not ask ANY questions about 
his family! I mean, you find out your a wizard and you meet all of 
these people who knew your parents and you don't ask what they did 
for a living? Do you have any aunts or uncles who are wizards? 
cousins? Who were your grandparents? What happened to them? This 
bothers me so so much in these books. I don't think Harry is so dim 
as to not think about these things so why are they absent since JKR 
must assume they would interest the reader (even if storyline 
irrelevent, she does write a long book after all).
I alway had this theory that all (or at least some) of Harry's 
answers are in "Hogwarts, A History" and that some day he is going to 
listen to that darn Hermione and find out something really cool about 
his mum (after all have you ever heard Harry tell Hermione his mum is 
an Evans?) I just thought it would be a cute way to say that a clue 
was under Harry's nose *all this time* and he never listened and just 
read that silly book!

Trish.