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

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 72562

Nicholina ODonnell wrote:

 > 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.

I'm not saying that Harry could not pass the tests to become an 
auror.  I am saying that he does not, now, have the kind of 
nasty, suspicious mind that it takes to do that sort of work 
successfully.  He is just too ready to take situations at face 
value, and rush in with wand blazing.  Perhaps he will develop an 
appropriate level of paranoia in the future, but that seems 
unlikely, given his personality.