Turning to the Dark side/Destinies/Next DADA teacher

[Florence]

No: HPFGUIDX 20201

Turning to the dark side.  In my opinion this will come down to 
"choosing what is easy over what is right".  Only the really evil gits 
will wander along to Lord Voldemort and swear allegience to him of 
their own volition; others will be blackmailed, tricked and bullied 
into helping the Dark cause and may or may not be actually recruited 
as Death Eaters.  

For instance:  Ludo Bagman has a big Goblin problem and could easily 
be approached by say Malfoy who could suggest that he would get the 
goblins off his back in return for passing information from the 
ministry.  Of course this assumes that Ludo is not already a Death 
Eater and that his disappearance after the third task was really him 
responding to Voldemorts summons.

Percy's (and other nice guys) choices are likely to be more subtle.  
He would certainly be more strongly morally opposed to passing 
ministry info directly, but, being rule bound may follow instructions 
from infiltrators of the ministry without thinking.  Or go down the 
route of Barty Crouch senior and (for career progression) ruthlessly 
implement dark methods in the fight against the dark side to the 
extent that he is no longer morally aware of the distinction between 
right and wrong.

I really like the suggestion that Colin might parallel Petigrew and be 
tempted to the dark side by strong armed bully tactics.  He could then 
be the insignificant bod that nobody suspects but later turns out bad. 
 The reason I especially like the suggestion is that this leaves 
Neville for some nobler destiny.  I'd like him to discover a herb with 
strong mind-curative properties (maybe Longbottom Leaf, which should 
be smoked - as in the Lord of the Rings).  With this he could revive 
his parents and restore his own memory (and maybe that of the Armenian 
warlock who really knows how to perform the complex Homorphus charm 
that could cure Lupin).  This would enable him to become Herbology 
professor (which has been rumoured), although I guess that would mean 
I should add Professor Sprout (another innocent Hufflepuff) to the 
killed-off possibilities.

Someone was asking about who the next DADA teacher might be, and 
nobody has yet proposed Florence!!  If it really was Snape she was 
kissing, she might know plenty about the Dark Arts.  Just a wild guess 
though really.

Florence