Now Rowling's control - It's All True

[Carol]

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va32h:
> 
> I don't think you are getting my point.  As I said, it doesn't
matter what we do in real life.  It matters what characters in the HP
world do, and no character has been shown to juggle multiple jobs and
family.  JKR's answer is not consistent with what she's written in the
seven books.
>
Carol responds:
We do have at least one character who canonically changed jobs, Ludo
("i can't keep getting hit by Bludgers all my life") Bagman, who
(despite Crouch Sr.'s opposition and his little run-in with the law
for giving information to Rookwood) switched from being a Beater for
the Wimbourne Wasps to being Head of the Department of Magical Sports
at the MoM. (He may have had a more junior MoM position in between.)
Uncanonically, Ginny does the same thing, changing from professional
Quidditch player to a sports reporter. And, of course, a number of
people switch positions or are promoted within their various
organizations (MoM, Hogwarts), but that isn't really changing jobs in
the sense you're talking about. 

One reason why so few people in the WW change jobs seems to be that so
few opportunities are available. If you're not employed by the MoM,
St. Mungo's, the Daily Prophet, Gringotts, or Hogwarts, you pretty
much have to open your own business, such as as shop or pub, or be a
store clerk. A few people apparently write books or perform in bands,
but those people are self-employed. 

Personally, I prefer to think that George married the pretty Muggle
girl and ran Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes by himself or with her
(Muggle integration into the WW, yea!). It doesn't feel right to me
for George to marry Fred's girlfriend, making George a Fred-substitute
in Angelina's mind. It makes perfect sense (to me) for his friend Lee
to marry Angelina, whose looks and Quidditch performance he's always
praising, and became a Quidditch announcer (JMO--no canon support for
that idea but it's in character for him). I also think that Ron and
Harry returned to school, went through Auror training, and became
Aurors as they planned. Their experiences hunting and destroying
Horcruxes, aided by Harry's no-longer-extant soul bit, and in the
Battle of Hogwarts, would not, IMO, qualify kids who couldn't even use
nonverbal DADA spells to be Aurors. I know that's not what JKR said in
her recent interviews, but, IMO, interviews aren't canon, and until
it's in print, she's free to change her mind and we readers can give
the characters the futures that seem to us to be consistent with
canon. (Others are free, of course, to accept anything JKR says in
interviews and on her website as the absolute, definitive
truth--including that thirteen-year-old father in the Black Family Tree.)

Carol, who thinks that Snape would have made the greatest Auror ever
if only he'd had that opportunity