Professor Sinistra

[Felicia Rickmann]

No: HPFGUIDX 38956


> Sorry if this has been mentioned before - I can't read ALL the
> posts.
> Reading around the posts, and also in the lexicon, I'm confused. Why
> all the confusion over Professor Sinistra's gender? She was dancing
> with Moody at the Yule Ball in GoF (sorry - don't have the ref/quote
> handy). I think it was something like they were "doing an ungainly
> two-step." Is this canon proof that Sinistra is female? I suppose she
> could technically be male, but isn't that geting a bit far-fetched?
> Is she referred to as he/she in any of the translated editions? But
> then, I don't think they count as canon (and I'm not trying to start that
> debate!)
>
> Jen
>
Might not a chap (in line with A often being female and O being male) that
in indicating Sinistra was a chap JKR would have given him a more* masculine
* moniker.  I always assumed Professor Sinistra was a woman (even before she
danced with Moody).  Just like I always assumed Lupin was pronouced with way
of the English flower until someone suggested it coud be pronounced
differently.  Ah well! * g *

Felicia