Could Lily have trained to be an Auror while Pregnant?

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No: HPFGUIDX 90930

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elihufalk" <elihufalk at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> There is, in my opinion, a mistake in the Lexicon's claim that 
Remus 
> Lupin Went to Hogwarts in the 70's. 

If so, the mistake is Rowling's, not mine. She said that Snape 
was "35 or 36" in an interview shortly after the release of book 
four.


Prof. McGonagall became a teacher 
> 39 years before OP; She teaches transfigurations, the same subject 
> that Dumbledore taught (CS); so Dumbledore must have stopped 
teaching 
> that by 1956 (assuming Harry was born in 1981).

But that doesn't meant that he became Headmaster at that point. We 
don't know what he did. For that matter, we don't know that 
McGongall taught Transfiguration right away. She may have taught 
something else and taken over Transfiguration in the late 1960s. We 
are told nothing of who taught what, only that Snape (and therefore 
Lily) was 35 or 36 in the mid-1990s.


> 
> Now, James and Lily were of the same year as Lupin, therefore the 
> years when Lily could have finished school were before 1970.

Lily and James and the rest of that generation left Hogwarts toward 
the end of the 1970s. We don't know the exact years. James and Lily 
were about 22 when they had Harry and 23 when they died. They could 
have been Aurors, sure. There's enough uncertainty to the dates to 
allow for a couple of years of training right out of school before 
Harry was conceived. 

It is also possible that Rowling was just plain wrong in that 
interview. She's not strong on numbers, to say the least. On the 
other hand, I can't imagine that she didn't work out a timeline for 
all of this as part of her five years of preparation for writing, 
considering the complexity of her plotting and the detail that she 
went to.

Steve
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