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

[Nicholina ODonnell]

No: HPFGUIDX 72408

> 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 wrote:
> 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.

T.M. Sommers wrote:
>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.

I thought your point was about if Harry would become and auror or not and that was the point I was arguing against.  If Tonks and Kingsley are able to pass the aptitude tests and become aurors, with their lack of paranoia, then Harry should be able to, as well.  

We don't know how good Tons and Kingsley are, this is true, and yet they are aurors.  Harry might even be better than them.  We do know that Harry has a good track record for going up against dark wizards.  Luck, of course, plays a part, but if Harry were "completely useless" then I'd doubt luck could help. 

Nicholina


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