Lily and James not Aurors (Was - Could Harry really be an Auror?)

[Kirstini]

No: HPFGUIDX 83352

I wrote:
>>Neither of Harry's parents were old enough to be fully-fledged 
Aurors>> 

To which Salit replied:
> We don't know that, do we?> 

'Fraid so. Check out the Lexicon at http://www.hp-
lexicon.org/james.html. James, Lily et al were born in 1960. By 1981, 
they would have been 21 - possibly a few of them still 20 - and if 
full Aurors then only just graduated. And to have escaped Voldemort 
three times in that small period between graduation and Halloween? 
Unless Auror training includes a massive practical element (ie, out 
there, fighting on the field), or was speeded up during the war, I 
imagine that they were working against Voldemort in completely 
different ways, to give them the practical experience of having 
escaped him three times between leaving school and Sybil making her 
prediction. They had done all this escaping before the prophecy, not 
as a result of it. He must have been after them for some other 
reason - and why pursue Aurors-in-training so personally? Why not 
just get a minion to do it? Also remember that the 20-year old Lily 
was heavily pregnant during what would have been her final, and 
presumably most intensive year of Auror training (asuming that they 
follow Hogwarts academic years). Not quite "too young" - my emphasis 
was misleading, sorry - to be Aurors, but very nearly, and too young 
to have any significance within that career path.
Dumbledor may recruit Aurors, but it strikes me that training Aurors 
is the Ministry's way of policing Dark activity, not his.
That "meddling" = spying seems more likely to me. Somehow.
Kirstini