[HPforGrownups] Harry's future (was Snape as new DADA teacher)

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 72307

Nicholina ODonnell wrote:
 > From: T.M. Sommers
 >
 >> I agree entirely about Harry's unsuitability to be an auror,
 >>  especially his lack of paranoia.  Moody, in many ways,
 >> reminds me of James Jesus Angleton, formerly head of
 >> counter-intelligence at the CIA, who saw so many spies in
 >> the CIA that no one ever believed him.
 >
 > I'm not sure that we should judge all aurors by Moody.  Tonks
 > and Kingsley are aurors, too, and are not nearly so paranoid.
 > Neither of them think they should go through clouds to throw
 > off followers or that anyone is going to die during Harry's
 > liberation.  To judge all aurors by one is a mistake, I think.
 > Especially to judge them all by one of the most promenent from
 > the first Voldemort war, which, I would think, would make one
 > more paranoid/sharp/hard than newer aurors might be.

That's just the point, isn't it?  That Moody was the best, and 
that he survived as long as he did.  We don't know how good Tonks 
and Kingsley are, or how well they would have done in the first war.

One could argue that Moody wasn't paranoid enough, since Crouch 
was able to kidnap him.