Harry's Future and Career

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 92775

Neil:
I know everyone is going to say he is too young, but I think Harry is
already priming for his future job as DASA professor.  Think about it.
 The job is always open and Dumbledore knows about the DA.  If Harry
defeats the Dark Lord, young as he is, who could be a better
candidate.  Everyone else can talk about it, Harry can actually do it
and has.  Wouldn't that upset Snape?


Carol:
We know from more than one interview that Harry won't be a teacher
(Neither will Ron.)
Here's the relevant quote from the October 12, 1999, interview:

[Sixth-grade teacher]: . . . we're curious as to whether Harry is
going to have a life after Hogwarts, or if maybe, Harry might be a
Hogwarts teacher.
JKR: Well, because all your kids said `hello' so nicely in the
background there, I am going to give you information I haven't given
anyone else and I will tell you that one of the characters, one of
Harry's classmates, though it's not Harry himself, does end up a
teacher at Hogwarts. But, it is not, maybe the one you think, hint,
hint, hint. Yeah, one of them does end up staying at Hogwarts, but ----
[Interviewer to the teacher]: Do the kids want to guess at it, Kathleen?
[Teacher to kids]: Do you guys have a guess as to who it is?
(Kids shouting in background) Ron
[Teacher:] They say Ron.
JKR: No, it's not Ron. I can't see Ron as a teacher. No way.

So, Harry's not going to be a teacher and neither is Ron. And since
"it is not, maybe, the one you think," I assume it's not going to be
Hermione, either. My guess, and I don't think I'm alone here, is
Neville, who'd make a darn good herbology teacher. But of course I'm
voting for Snape to finally get the DADA position as his reward for
services to the school at the end of Book 7.

As for Harry, the only ambition he's ever expressed (and Ron has
expressed it, too), is to be an auror. That way, they won't have to
retire *too* quietly after LV is gone, but they'll have three years of
training after Hogwarts before they have to go out and face the
remaining DEs and other baddies in the WW. By then, they'll be actual
grown ups.

Carol, who still has a hard time thinking of seventeen-year-olds as
being "of age."