Professor Arabella Figg

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 16555

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> gmaddox at h... wrote:
> 
> > Arabella Figg seems like the best choice for DADA just because I 
don't
> > think Fleur would be a very good teacher.
> 
> Has JKR said anywhere that she's going to use a previously 
encountered
> character for her female DADA teacher? Or was it just that a DADA
> teacher in future would be female? I've only seen a fraction of the
> extracanonical JKR stuff (wow, what a word! Maybe not all the brain
> cells are dying out!), and I'm not sure.
> 
> --Amanda

I think she only said that there will be a female DADA teacher in the 
future. I remember reading fan speculation that it might be Fleur due 
to her parting words to Harry in GoF that she wanted to get a job at 
Hogwarts to improve her English.

;-)Milz