Professor Arabella Figg

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 16562

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., gmaddox at h... wrote:
in response to Amandas post which said:
> > 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.
> 
> That's a good point.  I really only meant that between the two, I 
> thought Arabella Figg would be the better choice (mainly because 
> Fleur seems like a weaker choice

I also dont think Fleur would make much of a DADA professor, although 
I am reminded of some previous speculation on the group of what a 
Hogwarts Sex Ed class might be like, and I think Fleur might be a 
natural to teach that.  But, actually, Fleur only says that she wants 
to *get a job here to help improve her English* (I am paraphrasing).  
How do we know that *here* means Hogwarts?  She might just mean that 
she wants to get a job in the UK.  I think she would do pretty well 
serving drinks at the Leaky Cauldron, or gift-wrapping the books at 
Flourish & Blotts.

Oh, and use of words like *extracanonical* get you an extra 10 points 
on your L.O.O.N. (League of Obsessed Nitpickers) entrance exam, 
although as Amanda is a founding member, she hardly needs the points.


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