OOP: DADA Teacher

[derannimer]

No: HPFGUIDX 55097


Gina wrote: 
>>I totally agree. I immediately thought of a femme fatale. Not 
only that, but I thought of Snape. He's kind of the opposite of 
poisoned honey. Seems bitter, but is really good. We know Snape has 
always taken the opportunity to derise and sneer at the the DADA 
teachers. Maybe this DADA teacher could give him a run for his 
money. Love interest even? <<

Woo-hoo! Yeah, actually, I immediately thought of that too, but 
figured that I. . . er. . . wasn't going to mention it. I thought 
maybe it was just my Bent SnapeFan-hood reasserting itself. But Gina, 
for the record, yeah. 

I hope we see something there. ; )

Devika then wrote: 

>The word poisoned does have an evil connotation to me. However, I 
>really hope the new DADA teacher is not evil. 

Yeah, we've seen quite enough of those. But she doesn't necessarily 
have to be *evil* to be a femme fatale. She just has to be. . . 
*fatale.* ; )

>When I thought about it some more, I decided that the new teacher 
>could be someone with a sweet personality who faced so much 
>suffering and loss during VWI that she has become bitter and 
>sorrowful. The sweetness of her personality has been "poisoned," so 
>to speak, by her grief and pain. 

Yeah. . . but that doesn't quite work. It's not "fermented honey," or 
something, it's *poisoned* honey. "Poisoned," to me, has clear 
connotations of *danger.*

>Then, she would not be evil. In fact, she could be one of the "old 
>crowd," fighting against Voldemort. This might be consistent with 
>the Aging Potion!Arabella Figg theory (or at least it is in my own 
>mind <g>). And, of course, if she had been romantically involved 
>with Sirius fourteen years ago, only to lose him when he was 
>arrested, then that could contribute to her pain...

Here's two things, though:

First of all, we *are* going to see Arabella Figg. If the new DADA 
teacher is a *different* woman, then we will have *two* hopefully 
prominent new woman characters, instead of just one. And we badly 
need more woman characters. 

Second, hey, just because she's evil doesn't mean she can't have 
something with Sirius! <grins evilly> Maybe she can seduce him! 
Sirius strikes me as someone just *ripe* for being taken for a 
ride. . . 

>On another note, I believe now that the picture on the OoP cover is 
>a depiction of Harry's dream of a single door in a silent corridor. 
>The picture always suggested a dream to me, and I always thought 
>that it looked like there was actually one door, but that the room 
>was spinning--like what might happen at the end of a dream before 
>Harry woke up. Does that make any sense?

<jaw drops in admiration>

Devika, you've got it. You've absolutely got it. 




Derannimer