Professor Sinistra's subject was Happy endings/Death?

[Charmian]

No: HPFGUIDX 7871

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Nathan" <duo at d...> wrote:
> 
> >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.

Was it a first year subject? I can't quite recall, as it's been 
awhile since I read the first book. Indeed, from all that stuff that 
Harry and co. did in Divination class, it doesn't seem like there is 
much left over for an Astronomy class. 

Charmian