Talk:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter

After Hogwarts
The following appeared on Rowling's official site for the month of October 2007:

Wizard of the Month: Harry Potter (1980 - )

The Boy Who Lived, only known survivor of the Avada Kedavra curse and conqueror of Lord Voldemort, also known as Tom Riddle. Harry Potter joined the reshuffled Auror Department under Kingsley Shacklebolt at age 17, rising to become Head of said department in 2007.

The implication is that Harry became an Auror within two months of the death of Voldemort (at least entering the three years training that McGonagall talks about at that point) and was Head of the department within seven years. Hmm.

Is there anyone
who also thinks that the choice of Auror for profession is an authorial mistake? Following the consistent line of the books until suddenly for no real reason (except, as Harry himself mentions, a flattering Death Eater in disguise, and the desire to spite Umbridge), there is one obvious thing Harry Potter would be going to do. Finishing Voldemort off for good, and then in the peace of the Wizarding World, play Quidditch for England, in Seeker position. - After growing out of the age for professional sports, one might imaginate a professorship at Hogwarts (except for the fact that Hogwarts seems to require celibacy from his teachers?), under the influence of Dumbledore whose greatest pleasure lies in teaching, as it does for Harry Potter when teaching Dumbledore's Army. It is true that his subject would of course be Defence Against the Dark Arts, but why as a practitioner and not a teacher?--131.159.76.213 (discuss) 19:15, 15 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I sort of suspect the author was sort of casting around for a career, much as Harry was prior to the Careers conference in book 5. I argue that Hogwarts doesn't require celibacy; that's more of a lack of awareness on the part of the students. (I'll point at Hagrid and Olympe, for starters, and will mention that McGonagall, according to the author, was married and widowed. One cannot imagine Lockhart as being celibate... Dumbledore is, of course, a special case, and I suspect strongly that there are protective charms that prevent any of the teachers from concerning themselves with any of the students.) But yes, I can't help thinking that Harry as Quidditch star, and then as teacher, is a better fit for his personality than the plodding policeman's round of an Auror after Voldemort gets snuffed. Chazz (talk) 02:53, 16 March 2017 (UTC)