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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