[HPforGrownups] Re: New Wizard of the month on JKR website and her amasing math skills ;)

[Maria]

No: HPFGUIDX 177603

On 10/1/07, Geoff Bannister <gbannister10 at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>

>  Harry turned 17 very close to the beginning of DH and I reckon that
>  the defeat of Voldemort took the action well into the following year
>  of 1998. I rather doubt that Harry joined the Aurors on the following
>  day so I suspect he must have been at least 18 before that happened.
>

Very true! However, it is not hard to imagine that, immediately
following the final battle, Kingsley would gather up a bunch of
capable wizards, who would eventually be the core of the Auror
department under  his Ministry, to round up all the running about
Death Eaters and Voldemort supporters. I very much doubt that they
would hand themselves in, so there must have been some work to do
afterwards. And I am sure Harry would be amongst the first of them, so
he would be joining what would become the Auror Department then, even
though an office desk and official job might not have come until later
in the summer, when he was 18.

Maria