Snape as New DADA Professor/Harry as Auror

[antoshachekhonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 103426

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Deb" <DBoyken at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "antoshachekhonte" 
> <antoshachekhonte at y...> wrote:
> It 
> > would also get Harry around the must-have-O-on-OWLs restriction for 
> NEWT-level > Potions. I personally think he might have gotten an O--
> perhaps Neville as well--but you > never know. I can see JKR putting 
> Harry through the ringer thinking he's failed at his > chosen career 
> already, only to find that the rules have changed....
> 
> 
> I think if the Aurors were going to make an exception for anyone, 
> they would for Harry . . . especially after he (presumably) defeats 
> the big-V while he's still in SCHOOL! (Assuming, yes, that he 
> survives and all that . . . but anyone who can defeat the biggest, 
> baddest, scariest evil wizard at 17 can certainly handle exploding 
> toilets and whatnot! I'd think the Aurors would fall all over 
> themselves trying to recruit him--even if his Potions aren't quite up 
> to snuff.)
> 
> Deb in NJ

Antosha:

Very true. However, I can't see JKR setting up a hurdle like that simply to brush it aside. 
And Harry wouldn't find out about *not* needing NEWT-levels Potions until the end of 
seventh year... two years after he gets his (we presume) sub-par Potions OWL score.