Rowling interview question ...

[justcarol67]

kemper mentor wrote:
> Fluer never struck me as particularly competent.  Obviously, she was
picked by the goblet, but still... her performance in the 2nd task was
very unspectacular.  There seems little substance in her, so far,
except a pretty girl who treasures her sister.  I'd rather see a
gifted and formidable witch DADA professor.  Perhaps someone from the
Advance Guard, but not Tonks.  

Carol responds:
Well, she didn't have Lupin to teach her about Grindylows for the
Second Task, and she had the disadvantage of being stupefied by
Crouch!Moody in the Third Task. But I agree, we're unlikely to see
Fleur as a teacher. She's too busy "eemproving her Eenglish" (sp?)
with Bill. And I don't really like Tonks, who might have trouble
getting the students to take her lessons seriously.

How about Emmeline Vance? She shows up in the Advance Guard and is
obviously a member of the Order, but we learn almost nothing about
her. Same with Hestia Jones. Surely they're in the book for a reason.
Maybe one of them is the next DADA teacher. BTW, Sturgis Podmore is
mentioned in the same paragraph, and will almost certainly play a role
in Book 6 since he's just about to get out of Azkaban. He may be an
important source of information about the newly arrested Death Eaters
(and conditions in Azkaban without the Dementors).

Carol, who likes Ron's description of Podmore as "the one who looks
like his head was thatched"