[HPforGrownups] Re: Now Rowling's control - It's All True

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 180520

Carol wrote:
> 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? 
>   

Bart:
I realize that it's a magical world, but I strongly suspect that if the 
Auror department relaxes its requirements based on field performance, 
nobody is going to get turned into a frog as a result. Every hear of 
"waiving the requirements"? Happens all the time in the armed forces 
during wartime, where performance on the battlefield will gain someone 
promotions that they would not normally be qualified to get. Of course, 
there's always my belief that Harry and Ron were consultants, rather 
than regular agents. Can you picture, "OK, you three have just 
overturned the coup which had taken over the ministry. As a reward, you 
can become police officers. We'll start you at the bottom."

Carol:
> 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.
>   
Bart:
Let's see now. Defeating a foe that all the forces of the Ministry could 
not is NOT, with all the forces of the overturned Ministry against them, 
plus a bunch of mercenaries, and, in the middle of this, successfully 
robbing  Gringrotts of  one of the enemy's secret weapons, considered to 
be "earning" their positions, but passing a few classes is? As engineers 
sometimes say, 1 + 1 = 3 for large values of "1". You certainly believe 
in large values for "earned".

Bart


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