[HPforGrownups] Re: Kings Cross..... The end???

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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.





Sandy:
 
Thank you, Ken, for this most excellent post. It is almost exactly what I  
have been wanting to post about this subject once I got caught up. Harry just  
cannot be an Auror and stick to the philosophy of the Elder Wand. It is his  
intent to die a natural death and end the power of the wand once and for all.  
What are the chances of that happening if he is an Auror. And even if he is not 
 killed, simply being disarmed passes the ownership of the wand. And I, too,  
believe he had no further desire to be an Auror. I certainly believed him 
when  he said he'd had enough trouble for a lifetime. I feel he would be a good 
DADA  teacher.
 
It *really* irritates me that JKR did not think all of this through  
carefully before she started making statements within a few days of the book  being 
released. She was answering questions on the fly and making things up as  she 
went along only to contradict herself and give a different answer to the  same 
question a day later. I sincerely hope she sits down and thinks this all  
through carefully before she writes the encyclopedia.
 
Sandy



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