Bill as the new DADA teacher

[mrflynn6]

No: HPFGUIDX 42175

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "gina_malfoy" <gina_d at m...> wrote:
> I've checked the archives and nobody has suggested this as far as I 
> know, but forgive me if someone already has. 
> 
> How about Bill Weasley being the new DADA teacher? We know he works 
> as a curse-breaker for Gringotts and I think that means he must be 
a 
> very capable wizard. As I see it, curse breaking and defense 
against 
> the dark arts are related.
> 
> IIRC, according to someone on this list JKR said that the new DADA 
> teacher would be a surprise to us. That's why I suppose it's not 
> going to be a character introduced in OoTP, but someone we already 
> know, though we do not expect to see him/her in this position. 
> Moreover, Dumbledore will make sure the new professor is somebody 
> trustworthy, whom he could actually count on and who also really 
> cares about Harry and is willing to help him out (especially after 
> everything that happened in GoF with Fake!Moody and Voldemort 
getting 
> more powerful). So, who might the right man for the job be other 
than 
> a Weasley?
> 
> At first, I had thought of Arabella Figg, but that would be 
somewhat 
> obvious, IMO. Bill sounds like a good choice. What do you think?
> 
> Gina, who would also like to see Charlie teaching CoMC, if Hagrid 
> died.



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Oh, Bill is a good choice.  We don't know much about him and that 
would be one way to get to know him better.  It would also allow the 
storyline to continue into the Weasley's past and possibly get into 
the missing son?

The person I thought would "surprise" us as DADA teacher would be 
Molly Weasley.  She would be a trusted person and would look after 
Harry.  We don't know what she did to fight Voldermort as part of 
the "old croud".