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

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 83367

--> 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?> 
> 
 "Kirstini" <kirst_inn at y...> wrote:
> '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

Thwo thoughts on this:
1--One thing I think that the whole "born to those who have thrice defied him" 
may not necessarily mean Lily and James but "of those" in a sense of other 
ancestors.  Just an example, say, James Pottter's grandparent(s) defied Volde 
once, then his parent(s) did it for the second time and then finally James/and/
or/Lily did for the third time.  There are several ways to permutate this if you 
buy it, and I am merely just giveing a theorhetical *example*--not a theory.  
Anyway, so, by this, it may be possible that James and Lily did not necessarily 
have to have time to defy Volde three times all by themselves.  


2--Next thing, and this seems to support theory that James, especially, was 
not an auror.  In a chat, (  link-->  http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/
quickquotes/articles/2000/1000-aol-chat.htm  )
It is asked:  "Q:What did James and Lily Potter do when they were alive?"
JKR answers: "Well, I can't go into too much detail, because you're going to 
find out in future books. But James inherited plenty of money, so he didn't 
need a well-paid profession. You'll find out more about both Harry's parents 
later. "

My guess is that an Auror is a job that does pay well.  (I tend to think of it as 
less of a cop and more of a specialist/gov agent thing.)  

Arya