JKR's live chat -- excerpts

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 173813

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> wrote:
>

> Or, how about this. Neither Harry nor Ron have full-time jobs at
> the Ministry; they are consultants. Finally, after years of giving
> advice, they are given administrative positions, so as to better
>implement their suggestions.
> Bart


Well, the only thing about that is that it contradicts what JKR said
to one of the kids in the Today Show interview who asked what Harry
and Ron and Hermione did for a living.  She said clearly that both of
them were aurors and that Harry was the head of the department.  She
also said that Harry, Ron, and Hermione were the nucleus of a major
movement of reform that eventually transformed the entire Ministry.
If they manage to be aurors, transform the Ministry, and rise (in
Harry's case) to becoming Chief Auror and occasional lecturer at
Hogwarts (another thing she said Harry did) while only working part-
time, they are past heroic, they are workers of out and out
miracles, :-).


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