yes and james and lilly where with the order not auror like the longbottoms they where auoros and with the order they had bolth dified the dark lord 3 times and you dont have to be a auoro to do anything to the dark lord you just have to be good weith your wand and have a strong mind to keep from his legmins and all that harry has mostly gotin by on luck so far and is lucky he even got by on luck so i dont know what you where thinking about only aurors could go up aginst the dark lord.