[HPforGrownups] re: Animagus/ Teacher's names/WB trademarks titles?!/ female DADA teacher

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 45663

CatLady wrote:

> JKR has confirmed in interviews that the Animagus doesn't get to
> choose his/her animal form, but instead the animal form is a
> reflection of his/her personality.

True, but something that Lupin said seemed odd to me.  He told Harry "Yes,
your father was always a stag when he transformed."  Why not "your father
was a stag when he transformed."  Putting the word always in there implies
that some animagi can be something else at different times, but that James
was *always* a stag.  Anyone want to clear this up?

Freya writes:

> But anyway I wonder why JKR has made some of the character names so
> obvious, like Hooch, Sprout, Albus... (Albus! He didn't always have
> white hair!). Like their names would be their destiny or something.
> Aaargh! I find that annoying.

Well, I think Albus can also mean favorable or fortunate.  These are all
listed after white, of course, but still, JKR could've taken her pick.
Maybe he was the favorable or fortunate child, compared to his brother . . .
whose name has just slipped my mind.

Fyre Wood writes:

> I still believe that book 5 will be the final book. IT will be
> relatively long, but clear up everything that the supposed last three
> would do. THink about it--JKR is expecting a child and at the rate
> she's been crankin' out this next book, we'll all be old and gray
> when the "seventh" book comes out. =(

Err, I highly doubt that.  Keep in mind that four books came out in four
years.  The first of which she had several years to work on as the story
sorted out in her mind.  The second of which was a high pressure book after
the unexpected success of her first.  Following closely was a much thicker
PoA and an even thicker GoF.  That's four incredible books in four years,
basically.  Particularly consider GoF which was huge by all accounts, and
she was rushed the whole time.  JKR herself has said she refuses to be
rushed like that again.  She took a break, then got to work on OoP, on her
own schedule.  She had a baby when she started writing HP.  Why can't she
write with this baby?  I think she very well deserved a break after GoF,
tremendous book under tremendous pressure and a very tight schedule.

> Ethanol wrote:
>
> > JKR said in her last interview that it was indeed Mrs. Figg who
> >would be the > next DADA teacher.

Sal wrote:

> I'm curious to know, in which interview did she reveal this juicy
> snippet of info?

I don't think she did.  All she did was confirm that the book 5 DADA teacher
would definitely be female.  Before it was unclear if it would be book 5
DADA teacher or a future DADA teacher that would be female.  The exact quote
is "Well, we've obviously got a new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher
because Professor Moody wouldn't want the job again having been locked in a
trunk for a year! It's a woman this time. "  That's from BBC's September
2002 interview with JKR.

Richelle

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