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

[karafilley]

No: HPFGUIDX 83400

Kirstini 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:
> '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? 
<snip>

Now I add...

The info the HP Lexicon has on James and Lily's ages is pretty 
sketchy...  "The books leave ambiguous the exact years they attended 
Hogwarts. JKR did state in an interview which coincided with the 
release of Goblet of Fire (CR) that Severus Snape was "about 35 or 
36." That would place his birthdate in 1960 and his first year at 
Hogwarts to be 1971-72. This timeline works from that assumption. All 
dates for the this group might be a year off one way or the other. 
>From "Snape's Worst Memory" in OP, we know that Snape, Black, Lupin, 
Pettigrew, and Potter were all 5 in the same year.

It's possible Lily got pregnant 5 months or so after completing auror 
training--or even 17 months.  Nothing in canon gives us these dates 
exactly.

"karafilley"