career advice / Dudley / Harry as DADA teacher

[Christina in GA]

No: HPFGUIDX 101040

>Trevor:
> I found this slightly irregular as well.  The troubling part >is that 
> not only do the kids not focus on their choices for >OWL classes nor 
> receive info but also the parents do >not seem to be involved (not a 
> big deal for Harry >but for the others.).  This could just be an omission 
> of >the books, which focus on Harry: who would not > receive guidance 
> from the Dursleys anyway.  Alternatively, JKR is perhaps not perfect 
> and could have >possibly skipped this detail.


Christina: I don't think Harry or many of the other kids really thought
about it, except for Hermione. They probably just assumed they would work at
the ministry or at Hogwarts in some fashion. There are a lot of parents who
don't really care what their child wants to do or be. My parents couldn't
care less if I ever went to college. It took me until the age of 28 to
decide what I wanted to do for a career and I'm now going to college on my
own. I remember in high school having a meeting with a *guidance counselor*
but it was more of a joke, really. He did get me to sign up for the college
prep classes instead of the standard, though, even though I wasn't planning
to attend college. But he wasn't very interested in anything I had thought
about for after high school.

I think it's neat that the trio talk about being Aurors after meeting fake
Moody and thinking he was real Moody. He must have been pretty good to get
them thinking that way.

> Leeann:
> Strong emotions! Dudders hasn't shown anything like that.

Christina: Dudley hasn't shown strong emotion because his parents keep
giving him his every whim and keeping him happy. It could just be that they
are spoiling him in order to show Harry that Dudley is their son, not him,
or it could be they are trying to keep him from any strong emotion.

> Dzeytoun:
> Can anybody see any hope, here?  I would very much >like to think that
> Harry will end up as the DADA >teacher.

Christina: I still think it could be very likely. Being headmaster would be
quite different that being the DADA teacher. That seems like it would be a
lot of fun and still have some action. By the time the 7th book is over he
may have seen enough action.


Christina in GA