Professor Sinistra's subject was Happy endings/Death?

[Nathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 7860


>As for the faculty, I doubt she'll kill of McGonagall, as she's set
>up to be Dumbledore's successor. Snape, on the other hand, is
>possibly acting as a double agent, always a risky job, and is *not*
>on Voldemort's good books anyway, to put it mildly. The rest of them
>don't have enough pagetime for me to suspect one way or the other. I
>actually do hope she tells us more about them, especially the
>perennially mentioned but never very present professors Sinistra and
>Vector.

Which allows me a segue into the question: Why the heck is Astronomy so
important as a first year subject? The only magical use I can see is
Astronomy as a pre-requisite course for Divination.