Could Lily have trained to be an Auror while Pregnant?
ghinghapuss
rredordead at aol.com
Mon Feb 9 16:05:19 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 90540
> SnapesRaven wrote:
> Good morning! As far as I know, Harry's parents were aurors; I
think I read it here onlist but I haven't got my books at hand right
now, so no canon evidence.
Mandy here:
I have a problem with Lily being able to become an Auror in the
short space of time between when she left school, and the time she
died. It was only about 2 years. 3 at the most.
Now, we know Tonks is a newly trained Auror and she is only 20 years
old, right? So that makes the training program roughly 2 years
long, so logically James and Lily had the time. But Lily was
pregnant and had a baby. Now I'm assuming the training program is
very physical, like training to be a policeman/woman or magical army
boot camp. Could Lily have had the time and the ability to Auror
train, work for the Order, and carry and have a baby? Don't forget
you have the pregnancy, the birth and the beautiful hell of not
sleeping for 4 or 5 months after the birth.
I have these dates:
Lily left school in 1978 (from Lexicon)
Auror training: 1978-1980 (my speculation)
Got pregnant Sept/Oct 1979 (logical deduction from date of birth)
Gave birth July 1980 (from Lexicon)
So this only give her just over 1 year of physical freedom to train.
Summer 1978 autumn 1979. Also bear in mine she was a member of
the Order during this time and actively fighting LV.
I do see Lily as a superwoman, and I want to believe it is possible
as I'm a young woman and want to be able to do it all, but I just
don't see how she could have done it.
Any thoughts? I would love to be proved wrong on this one.
Cheers Mandy
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