Male Veela, Malfoy(s), Snape/DADA, New Teachers

[M. Barnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 23777

Male Veela:  Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery ... nuff said.


Malfoy(s):  Draco does have a chance of redemption, because he hasn't 
really done anything truly bad.  Yeah, we all loath him because he is 
our hero's arch-enemy, but the practical jokes and taunting aren't 
truly evil things to do.  Hell, I taunt my co-workers on a daily 
basis and they don't think *I'm* evil ... well, bad example ... 
anyway, he hasn't tortured or killed any muggles or <bad word meaning 
half-muggle/half wizard>.  If he sees the way things really are, 
Voldie uses people and they don't really get their own power, he may 
see the error of his ways and see his way to the good guys side.  
Lucius, OTOH, is set in his dark and evil ways.  He is a DE and 
returned to Voldie when he called the DE's back to him.  He'll go 
back to the muggle torture, just to stay in VOldie's good graces.  Of 
course, he'll be careful to be masked and disguised so no one in the 
MoM finds out who he is (until later on when our Hero's unmask him) 
in order to maintain his social standing.  I think this will actually 
benefit Voldie as well, as he will have a good connection to the MoM.


Snape/DADA:  I think, and this is just my personal theory, Dumbledore 
planted the theory that Snape wants the DADA job, just in case all 
heck breaks loose.  If all the students think Snape wants the DADA 
job and he is an evil kinda guy, it would be easier for outsiders 
(read this: DE's) to believe that he is a bad guy, just at Hogwart's 
to infiltrate and stab Dumbledore in the back.  SO Snape goes along 
with this act and just never says that he is perfectly happy as the 
Potions Master, in fact, this is what he prefers to do.  


New Teachers:  Hmmm ... there has been loads of speculation who the 
new teacher will be.  IIRC, somewhere JKR said one of Harry's peers 
will be a/the teacher.  To me, Harry's peers would include those in 
his year, those 1 year behind and 1 year ahead of him.  These are the 
people Harry would more likely hang out with, thus making them his 
peers, or at least that's how I learned the word.  However, being the 
4th Champion for the Tri-Wizard (can we call it the Quad-Wizard Cup?) 
Cup, his peer group started to include much older students (well, not 
much older, but when I was 14, 18 looked like a lifetime away), such 
as Viktor, Fleur, and Cedric.  Well, we can sadly count Cedric out as 
coming back to be a teacher.  Viktor, it seems, has another year 
left.  I base this on the conversation he and Harry(?) had about who 
the new headmaster at Durmstrang would be.  Fleur it seems is done 
with school, as she said she wanted to come back to ... Hogwart's(?), 
maybe Hogsmeade? ... to get a job and practise her English.  Then, of 
course, we have the folks that have already left school recently, 
Oliver Wood, Angelina, etc.  Well, then you have to consider 
what "Harry's peers" really means.  Now I have stretched it to 
include Fleur, Viktor and Cedric ... I think perhaps we could stretch 
it a little more to Include Bill and Charlie Weasley.  After all, 
they aren't "really" considered to be adults ... they are just more 
of Ron's brothers.  As a curse breaker for Gringott's, BIll would 
probably be a pretty good DADA teacher, and we know we'll need one of 
those.  And who knows how long Hagrid's journey to visit his mother 
will take, if he's not back by the beginning of term, Charlie, the 
dragon guru, would be a great Care of Magical Creatures teacher.  I 
think the more likely candidate would be Bill.  He's shown himself to 
be quite willing to help Dumbledore out, and I don't think anything 
wierd (Dark Lord's inhabiting their head, them being smarmy 
dumbsh*ts, or someone other than who they looked like ... Lupin was 
the only one I would have liked to have seen stay) could happen to 
the DADA teacher while someone we already know is fairly normal is 
the teacher.

Just my 2 or 3 knuts ... well, it's pretty long, so maybe 3 or 4 
knuts :)

Michelle <----who can't wait until she has a job that doesn't force 
her to be awake all night ... oh wait, I do, starting next Friday! :)