could Harry really be an auror?

[laura]

No: HPFGUIDX 83564

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kirstini" <kirst_inn at y...> 
wrote:
> D wrote:
> 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.>  
> 
>> 
> 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)
> ****
> 
now laura 

Not having my books with me, I cant quote, but when Umbridge is 
inspecting Snape's class, she says something like "the strenghtnining 
solution is quite advanced and we [the ministry]don't want them 
taught how to make it.'  
Judging by that, it would seem that Snape's class is more advanced 
than the Ministry expects, thus more advanced than the Wizarding Exam 
Authority expects.  Harry will get a good grade, because, IMO, he 
will know more advanced potions than he is expected to know.

>
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. If Potions are 
> essential to Auror training, and Hary is not a particularly 
talented 
> potion-maker, it seems only logical to conclude that he wouldn't be 
> successful in this part of the job. 
> Okay, preparing to duck.
> Kirstini.

laura again...

Harry may not be too great at potions, but he is the best at DADA.  
In this way, he can be compared to Tonks, who was excellent 
at 'concealment and disguise,' but almost failed another part of the 
auror exam (sorry, can't remember what it was called).  And Harry is 
not the worst potions maker in the world, IMHO.

laura