ghosts, magicians and babies was Re: Questions

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 118993


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
  
> 
> Potioncat:
> I'm not sure I follow this question.  We don't have any clue that I 
> know of about Alice's occupation, nor whether Gram approved of 
her.  
 
Hickengruendler:

Alice was an Auror as well. Moody said so when he showed Harry the 
photo of the old Order. And later Mrs Longbottom told Harry and the 
others in the scene on the closed ward, that both her son and her 
daughter-in-law were Aurors.

This sort of contradicts the Pensieve scene in GoF, where it was only 
said that the Longbottoms were an Auror and his wife, who were 
attacked by the Death Eaters. There was no mention that Neville's 
mother was an Auror, too. I think making Alice an Auror as well was 
an afterthought from JKR, because of the criticism she got for her 
female characters. But whatever the reason was, it's now canon. She's 
an Auror.