Kings Cross..... The end???

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 175975

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Brandy" <brandy_muth at ...> wrote:
>
> Sue wrote:
> 
> > but I bet he never became an auror, because if he did, he'd be
> > putting himself in danger of being defeated by some dark wizard and
> > losing the allegiance of the Elder Wand, and he really, really
> > didn't want that to happen, if you recall. he wanted the thing's
> > power to die with him. So he'd have to have as boring a life as
> > possible, wouldn't he? :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Actually, he did become an Auror. JKR mentioned this in her online
> chat on Bloomsbury and Scholastic, and on her Dateline NBC interview.
> Both Ron and Harry are aurors, Harry is head of the department. They
> ahve "Completely revolutionized" the department. Hermione is "pretty
> high up" in the Dept. of Magical Law Enforcement. She said its
> a "whole new Ministry of Magic"
> 
> Really interesting point though Sue about the Elder wand...I didn't
> think about that at all.
> 
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20001720/page/4/ (link to dateline
> interview)
> 
> Brandy
>


Ken:

It has been discussed before and Sue is right, Ms. Rowling is wrong.
Harry cannot go on to become a mad eye Moody if he means to end the
power of the elder wand. It is way too big a risk. However, someone
else pointed out that Harry could work for the auror office and even
head it up without ever being a field agent.

I predicted that Harry would not defeat Voldemort by becoming the
"fastest gun in the west" and in a way I was wrong about that. What I
meant was that we would not see him master magic to the level that we
saw Voldemort and Dumbledore use against each other in the Ministry.
And that is true, his wand did do that for him very early on and then
it got taken out of action. Harry didn't even understand what the wand
did. What we did see was Harry becoming a fast gun in a much different
and I thought, believable, way. In DH Harry became a master of
combining information to see through it to the motives and plans of
his opponent. He became a master detective. It is a talent he has
shown all along and it really blossomed in the final book.

That is a talent that the auror office can use and it can be done
almost completely from a desk, safe inside the Ministry. It's not like
Harry has anything left to prove about his personal courage. Of course
our dear author is anything but a master at putting together
information like this so I have no doubt that when she writes her
encyclopedia of the Potterverse she will have Harry out there slinging
lead at the bad guys like Eliot Ness on steriods.

And that is just wrong....

Personally I think it is wrong on a different level too. I don't think
that Harry wants to be an auror anymore, he's done that to death. At
the end Harry says he's had enough trouble for a lifetime. I believe
him, I hope the author does too. Harry needs to do something else with
his life and he has earned the right to a peaceful but rewarding
existence. He's really been set up to become a champion for civil
rights for the other magical creatures and Muggles, if you ask me.

Ken