Now Rowling's control - It's All True

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 180473

bboyminn wrote:
> 
> <snip> In fact, I think JKR said virtually everyone who was
instrumental in fighting Voldemort, continued to work as Aurors until
the job was done and the last DE was rounded up. <snip>

Carol responds:
Yes, IIRC, she did say something like that in a recent Pottercast
segment (the transcript is on Leaky). Which raises the question of
what happened to the need for six NEWTs, including Potions, and three
subsequent years of training. Maybe they were deputized as temporary
junior Aurors, with the duty of searching out and helping to bring in
known DEs. But to admit them to the department untrained, and then to
have Harry become head of the department at twenty-seven all because
he used an Expelliarmus on Voldemort and was lucky enough not to die
from Voldemort's Expelliarmi because of a soul bit and a mix-up with
the Elder Wand? 

Ergh. I'd rather believe that Harry and Ron returned to Hogwarts with
Hermione and *earned* their positions as Aurors with the proper
training. If Ron became an Auror at all, as both he and Harry
expressed the desire to do in the books.

Sigh. I wish JKR had gone to South America or Fiji (winks at
Goddlefrood) or anywhere to escape the Rita Skeeters and work on that
encyclopedia without giving us previews of content that may well
change by the time she actually writes it. Actually, I'd rather that
she examined the inconsisties, improbabilities, and lacunae that
readers have pointed out in the books, recognized them as real and not
imagined defects, and revised the books to repair as many as possible,
with the help of an editor familiar with the books and the criticisms
who would keep her from making still more blunders.

Carol, wondering what the books would have been like if JKR had been
allowed to take her time and the editors had been less leery of
changing a single word from her pen or keyboard or pointing out
inconsistencies and requiring her to correct them