Could Harry really be an Auror? (Was: Anyone else over PPD?)

[marigoldevans]

No: HPFGUIDX 83335

D wrote:
> > I think there will be 10 books total in the series. You've got 7 
in 
> the "Hogwarts series" and another 3 after that for Auror training. 
> <snip>  
> I think JKR is setting the ground work to continue even after Harry 
> has left Hogwarts. Or maybe this is just wishful thinking on my 
> part.>  

Kirstini <kirst_inn at y...> wrote:
> Ah, if only (Kirstini, firmly in the Dead!Harry camp, adjusts her 
> homemade FEATHERBOA)!
> However, this got me thinking. Say Harry does live <chortle>, does 
> anyone think he will actually make it into Auror school? It doesn't 
> seem likely to me, for several reasons.
> 
> 1. I don't think his Potions mark will be high enough. 
> ****
> Harry corked his sample flask feeling that he might not have 
achieved 
> a good grade but he had, with luck, avoided a fail. (OoP, 
Bloomsbury, 
> p 632)
> ****
> Surely we aren't going to see Harry bumped up a grade or two 
because 
> he's the famous Harry Potter? Yes, McGonagall has pledged to 
support 
> him, but she has also been particularly scathing about the 
Ministry's 
> corrupt dealings with Willy Widdershins - she's not going to 
> encourage the same sort of thing within the education system, is 
she? 
<snip>
> 
> 2.There are other ways of fighting Voldemort/evil.
> Neither of Harry's parents were old enough to be fully-fleged 
Aurors 
> (another reason why they weren't at school with the Longbottoms, 
> IMHO), and yet had escaped him "three times" by the time Sybil made 
> her prediction. 
<snip>
> 3. Is it likely that an exhausted 18 year-old, fresh from defeating 
> The Most Powerful Dark Wizard For A Century, even one as gung ho as 
> Our Young Hero, is going to jump right back on the Dark-beating 
wagon 
> again? It's always been all go for Harry. With the major goal 
> completed, I imagine he'd probably want to stop for a break.
<snip>
> 4. We are told that being an Auror was the only career path Harry 
had 
> seriously considered, but this ambition is a comparatively new one, 
> and was put into his head by Crouch!Moody in GoF. <snip> Harry is 
attracted to Auror (ism? 
> Aurorship?) because he has formed a rather glamourous (well, as 
> glamourous as any job done by Mad-Eye Moody could ever seem)idea of 
> what it involves. Let him have a little disappointment - a Cho 
Chang 
> career - before finding out what he really wants to do/ what he's 
> really good at. This sort of thing happens a lot to sixteen year 
olds 
> receiving their exam results.


Hi!  I joined this group only a few days ago and have been lurking 
ever since.  However, the glee brought on by this message has me 
skipping out into the sunshine.

I totally agree with you, Kirstini, that Harry will not become an 
Auror.  Not only do his Potions grades not support it, but he isn't 
doing too well in his other classes, considering the academic 
requirements of the job.

But, more importantly, I think JKR and canon are both hinting at what 
he will become... a teacher at Hogwarts, specifically the DADA 
teacher.  I know that most people tend to interpret the allusion JKR 
has made about one of the characters becoming a teacher to mean 
Neville.  And until OoP, I might have agreed.  But she did say that 
the person was one that we might not expect, and IMHO Neville is a 
rather obvious choice.  Less so is Harry, who thinks being an Auror 
would be cool.  But there are several references in OoP that seem to 
support the idea that Harry might be happiest as a teacher at 
Hogwarts.

1.  Ch. 16, pg. 331 (Am. ed.)---Harry, before ever agreeing to form 
the DA, "...found himself subconsciously planning lessons...."
2.  Ch. 19, pg. 397; Ch. 21, pgs. 451, 454, 455; Ch. 23, pgs. 501-
502; Ch. 25, pg. 553.  Most of these are statements to the effect of 
how happy he is about the DA and their efforts.  But the one that 
best summarizes Harry's feelings and supports the idea that this 
might be his future career path is in ch. 27, on pg. 606:  "He 
sometimes felt that he was living for the hours spent in the Room of 
Requirement, working hard but thoroughly enjoying himself at the same 
time, swelling with pride as he looked around at his fellow D.A. 
members and saw how far they had come."  Sounds like a teacher to me.

Here's where the glee part comes in.  JKR has said that she would end 
after seven books, when Harry left Hogwarts.  But, what if he didn't 
leave?  Imagine the fun she could have with Harry on the faculty now 
having to deal with Snape as a colleague, Harry moving up through the 
ranks to become the next Dumbledore, Harry mentoring the future Harry 
Potter.  A silly grin spreads across my face just thinking about it!

Of course, this is all dependent on Harry's survival.  Another 
scenario I can easily envision is that, broken beyond all repair by 
his fight with LV, Harry willingly walks through the ancient arch in 
the Death Room at the DoM.

Anyway, there it is for what it's worth.

"marigoldevans"