Future DADA Professor prediction (with FF)

[davewitley]

amdorn wrote:

> What/who do you predict will be the sixth year and seventh year 
DADA 
> professors?
> 
> 
> I would predict someone from the order as the sixth year DADA 
> professor, not Snape.  Possibly Tonks.
> 
> I would predict Snape as the DADA professor for Harry's final year.

I predict that JKR will continue with unknowns for the post in both 
books.  There's an excellent essay on the Lexicon, which says pretty 
well everything there is to say about this issue.

I envisage a conversation something like this at the end of Book 7:

Person (possibly Harry, if he's alive), to Dumbledore:  You really 
do have rotten luck with those Defence Against the Dark Arts 
professors, don't you?  At least s/he died in a good cause.

Dumbledore (twinkling): You know, now that Lord Voldemort has gone, 
I really think I can see my way to letting Professor Snape have the 
job.  It's not the Order of Merlin like Harry's/yours, but perhaps a 
consolation prize is in order.

As you can see, I also predict that Dumbledore will survive the 
series, for reasons of symmetry.

David