Sinistra -

[Charmian]

No: HPFGUIDX 8664

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Catlady <catlady at w...> wrote:
> Steve Vander Ark wrote:
> > I wonder if the name wasn't chosen simply for the sound. It does
> > have sort of an astronomical flavor to it...
> 
> With that association to 'sinister' (and the 'left-hand path'), I 
keep
> wondering if she is going to turn evil, or at least be a graduate of
> Slytherin.

That does sound likely. I mean, why else would JKR give the esteemed 
professor such an evocative name, unlike the merely obvious and 
equally obscure Vector?

> I searched electronically for references to Sinistra, and found:
> 
> 1) In SS, I didn't find her name at all, but I did find references 
to
> 'the astronomy tower' and 'the tallest tower'. The one I clipped
> combined the two phrases: "let alone being up the tallest astronomy
> tower, which was out-of-bounds except for classes".  I had 
remembered
> the following as 'on top of the tallest tower' rather than 'through
> their telescopes", which shows what MY memory is worth: "They had to
> study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at
> midnight and learn the names of different stars and the movements 
of the
> planets."
> 
> 2) Only the following in CoS: "Justin was carried up to the hospital
> wing by Professor Flitwick and Professor Sinistra of the Astronomy
> department, but nobody seemed to know what to do for Nearly Headless
> Nick."
> 
> 3) Nothing in PoA.
> 
> 4) I don't have an electronic GoF.
> 
> 

Well, other than the famous Moody scene, Sinistra appears at the 
opening feast, seated next to McGonagall and talking with her. I 
think she might have been seated next to Snape too, or someone else. 
I forget. 

There's nothing in the books that discusses what Sinistra is like in 
appearance, ability as a teacher, or personality, as far as I recall. 
There's nothing in the books that says she isn't a babe, and nothing 
that doesn't. 

While we're on the unknown teachers topic, I seem to recall Hermione 
expressing enthusiasam for Vector's class. 

Charmian