Alice was an Auror (WAS: Trevor is a Horcrux)

[elfundeb]

No: HPFGUIDX 151064

>
> DA Jones:
> > Another minor point. It seems to me a lot of peole say Alice is an
> Auror. Frank is an auror obviously, but isthere canon for Alice?  I
> don't recall.
>
> Potioncat:
> I think, but would not swear on my books, that Frank was an Auror,
> but that we were never told Alice was.


Debbie:
Here's the canon, from OOP ch. 23 (Christmas on the Closed Ward):  "'They
were Aurors, you know, and very well respected within the wizarding
community,' Mrs Longbottom went on.  'Highly gifted, the pair of them.  I --
yes, Alice dear, what is it?'"

But you're right that in GoF they were described as an Auror and his wife.
There was, pre-OOP, a lot of grumbling about JKR's treatment of her female
characters, and Alice's status as a nameless wife whose only contribution
was to suffer with her husband was frequently cited as an example.  Who
knows if JKR read the criticism, but Alice's promotion to Auror is
interesting when viewed in that context, since I doubt that whether she was
or was not an Auror will make any difference to the plot.

Of course, it's not clear whether Frank's status as Auror has any real
relevance either, unless JKR is going to explain in Book 7 who sent the
Lestranges after the Longbottoms and why.

Debbie
who wants to know if Frank used the Unforgivables on suspects when he was an
Auror


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