Hogwarts letters Re: Choosing sides

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 118991


> SSSusan:
It seems to me there are many options:
> run a business,
practice law [though providing a school transcript in order to get  
into law school could be tricky...]
establish a manufacturing plant or just work in one
be a carpenter or other manual laborer
be an ice cream man [Rupert Grint's personal favorite :-)]
farm
work in sales or customer service
teach
do research for a drug company
run a post office which surreptitiously provides WW mail service, too 
be a clerical worker

To me the list is endless.  It all hinges upon being willing to not 
use your magic -- which I *do* think is possible, especially for 
adult witch/wizards -- or to mask it or to work solo or even to work 
with other magical "Muggles" so that you use magic behind closed 
doors.  If the witch/wizard has decided to return to the Muggle 
World, one can assume a willingness to leave the magic behind or to 
hide it.
There are a lot of Muggle occupations which don't require advanced 
degrees, and for those which do, since Muggles also have to continue 
their educations anyway, it wouldn't be weird for someone their age 
to be continuing on.  The hardest part would be producing that 
transcript....


Alla:

I absolutely agree. We, as humans, have almost unlimited ability to 
adapt to new and unknown conditions of life, whether it is coming to 
new world or returning to the old one after years of absence.

I like many of your examples. 

I can just see Snape doing research for the drug company and trying 
to patent some of his potions under new names.

Hmmmm, I wonder how would he advertise Wolfsbane? :o)

Practising law - well, as long as there is no transcript, why not? :)
Actually, I don't know that for sure since I was not living in the 
USA yet back in those days, but someone once told me that decades ago 
you were not required to even go to law school in order to practice. 
You only had to pass the Bar exam. If that is true, which I am not 
sure about, then  yeah, hermione can try to become a lawyer, why 
not? :)