TBAY: HIDING THEFT and DOCTOR FLOWER

[kangasboy]

No: HPFGUIDX 41414

It is another beautiful day in Theory Bay, the sun sparkles serenly 
against the blue waters. . . Things have been a bit quiet the last 
few days, and everyone has been content to relax on their 
respective ships. 
As the morning wears on, a few of the ships' captains notice that  
an odd silhouette has appeared on the mouth of the harbour. 
The silhouette gradually approaches, albeit extremely slowly, 
and begins to come closer towards the other ships
"Well, I'll be", mutters Pippin, from the LOLLIPOPS lifeboat. "It 
loks like a catamaran."
Curious to see who this newcomer was, she grabbed her 
Omnioculars and took a closer look.
But it wasn't a catamaran at all. Rather, it was an extremely 
confused blond-haired man, with one foot on two floating 
pontoons, desperately trying to steer both of them towards the 
others. Pippin sees the names on the sides of the two boats: 
they are the HIDING THEFT and the DOCTOR FLOWER.
Eventually, the bewildered and amateurish captain of the two 
boats comes close to where Pippin is drifting.
"Ah, are you right there?"
The captain is taken by surprise, and promptly loses his balance 
and slips into the waters of Theory Bay. He quickly clambers 
onto the DOCTOR FLOWER, and throws a rope towards the 
HIDING THEFT, to prevent it drifting away. 
"Oh, I'm sorry," spluttered the captain, to the crowd of ships that 
has gathered to scrutinise the newcomer. 
"Allow me to introduce myself", he continued, "my name is Roo, 
and I've lurked around Theory Bay for quite some time now, but 
only recently tried to sail my own ship. Unfortunately, I couldn't 
make up my mind which one to take, so I thought I's try my hand 
at them both. . . And I'm afraid to say, I'm in a bit over my head"
Someone in the crowd muttered, "Well obviously"
Roo went on: "Would anyone care to help me?"
Pippin replied, "Why don't you explain your ships first?"
"Of course, of course," said Roo, and plunged into his 
explanation:
"Well, both of my ships were built around Fleur's comment at 
then of GoF, where she says 'I am 'oping to get a job 'ere, to 
improve my Eenglish'. Well, this seemed like a pretty decent 
foreboding for the future books, so I thought about it more. 
Where would Fleur get a job in England? Not at the *British* 
Ministry of Magic, unless she was an ambassador of some sort, 
and seeing as there isn't much canon to support that theory, I 
decided to ditch that. So I thought a bit more.  Then I had an 
answer: at Hogwarts of course! But would could Fleur teach? 
There is going to be a female DADA teacher, but Fleur couldn't  
even take care of a Grindylow. So that one seems to be out. And 
then I founded the HIDING THEFT: Hagrid Is Dead. Is New 
Groundskeeper Trustworthy? Hogwarts Employs Fleur as 
Teacher (please note that this theory says that Fleur will only 
replace Hagrid as teacher, not as a groundskeeper). Well, first 
Hagrid has to die; I won't bore you much with this stuff, except to 
say that Hagrid represents Harry's childhood; that is, Hagrid 
represents the innocence within Harry in regards to the WW (eg, 
Hagrid is the first wizad he meets). As Harry *lost* his 
innoncence after the graveyard scene, it makes sense (at least 
symbolically) that Hagrid has to be removed somehow, in order 
for Harry to develop.
Anyway, back to Fleur. Well we know that CoMC doesn't require 
much teaching experience (look at Hagrid), just sufficient 
knowledge. Now, there isn't much canon to support Fleur 
knowing a lot about magical creatures, but I draw your attention 
to two instances in GoF. Firstly, there are the giant  Beauxbatons 
horses; although this is not connclusive, it would seem highly 
likely that if Beauxbatons has such creatures at its disposal, the 
students would be quite adept at handling the creatures. 
Secondly, and more conclusively, there is the first task. Fleur is 
able to entrance her dragon with a single charm, when it took the 
combined power of three trained wizards to subdue them. Only 
Fleur used a method to *control* the dragon; Cedric and Harry 
both distracted theirs, and Krum disabled his. As her only fault 
was accidentally been set on fire by a snore, she proved herself 
to be quite capable of handling this dangerous creature. So 
Fleur very well could become a CoMC teacher.

Just when I had prided myself on this first ship, however, another 
one caught my eye: the DOCTOR FLOWER, which stands for: 
Death Of Charms Teacher Obligates Replacement. Fleur Leaps 
Out as Worthy, Enchanting Recruit. For this to occur, Professor 
Flitwick has to die. . . Seemingly unlikely. .  However, maybe not. 
In CoS, in "The Duelling Club", the Trio is discussing who might 
be leading it, and Hermione says, "Somone told me Flitwick was 
a duelling champion when he was young". Now Hermione isn't 
one to entertain idle, baseless gossip, so it seems that she 
believed this claim to at least be possible. Also bear in mind that 
Flitwick was patrolling outside the maze in the Third Task, 
putting him on par with McGonagall and Moody.  So Flitwick 
could prove to be a crucial player in Dumbeldore's fight against 
evil, so it makes sense that he could be an early casualty, or be 
needed somewhere else. Plus Flitwick is just important enough 
to provide the necessary emotional ordeal for the characters (if 
he dies), but not important enough to warrant too much drama 
too early in the series. 
Now Fleur is more suited to teach Charms (over CoMC); look at 
her performance in the first two tasks. In the first tasks, she used 
a very powerful charm on the dragon. And in the second task, 
she still managed to get 50% of the available points due to her 
"excellent use of the Bubblehead Charm". So her obvious forte is 
in charmwork. Combine this with her *natural charm* due to her 
Veela heritage, and you have a capable  Charms teacher.
Fleur being a teacher in general isn't too far-fetched. 
Dumbledore could well want someone with close connections 
both with Beauxbatons and France in general. That Dumbledore 
said in his end of year speech, "such ties are more important 
than ever before", it makes sense that he network as much as 
possible. Fleur could provide a link with foreign wizards, who like 
Fudge refuse to listen to Dumbledore, but are more likely to 
listen ot one of their countrywomen.

And that's the end of my explanation," Roo finished, breathlessly.
He looked expectantly at the crowd gathered around him, then 
sat down for a short rest, while the others pondered his theories.

Roo, who is secretly (and desperately) hoping that someone 
wants to help with one of his ships.