Flying // Aurors never run out of work

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 187301

Soon I will be leaving for San Francisco for Azkatraz, and tourism before and maybe after. We're driving, so we haven't even decided yet whether to leave on Monday or Tuesday or probably not Wednesday, because our room reservation starts Wednesday night. We didn't buy tickets for the cancelled IMAX show so I wonder if we can get tickets at the movie theater for the replacement 2-D group showing of The Movie.

Karen wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/187244>:

<< After all Apparition was sufficiently difficult and dangerous to require a test so unassisted flying was I assume way beyond that level. >>

According to Quidditch Through the Ages, wizarding folk need a flying object or flying animal because the only forms of unassisted flying known to magic are either to Levitate at a rigid height of five foot above the ground or to transform into a flying animal. There's a line about few Animagi have forms that are flying animals and a wizard Transfigured into a bat or a bird would have only a bat's or a bird's brain and therefore not remember why he wanted to fly.

I did improve Levitate in my fanfic, so that it could be used to ascend by Levitating a rigid five feet from a vertical wall.

Vupitar wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/187251>:

<< My understanding is that Voldemort had invented unaided flight magic very recently - Nobody else could do it because nobody else knew how. >>

That would indeed explain how LV can do it even though canon (QTTA) says it's impossible. Was Rowling thinking that SNAPE had invented it very recently and taught it to LV?

Carol wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/187291>:

<< Honestly, I'd do the same thing if I were Harry. But I'd find a career other than Auror because there aren't any bad guys left to fight. >>

There are always bad guys to track down and capture, even if no Dark Wizard seeks to conquer the wizarding world for the next hundred years, such as an obsessively infatuated witch who murders her lover's wife (or her daughter's rival for Head Girl). She might have done so with an elaborate plot, like TMR murdered Hepzibah Smith, that required real investigation to find out whodunnit.

<< He doesn't even need to kill, only to outduel his opponents. As long as he can do that, he'll have no problem dying a peaceful, natural death. >>

He also needs eyes in the back of his head. The murderess's sister may want to avenge her, even if said avenger viewed Harry as the savior of the wizarding world rather than as the conqueror who defeated her people, the purebloods.