OOP: Poisoned Honey?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 55122

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "derannimer" <susannahlm at y...>
wrote:
> Eileen wrote: 
> 
> >What really surprised me was the description of the
> >DADA professor as someone with a personality like
> >poisoned honey. That can't refer to her being
> >ultimately good or bad, ...edited...
> 
> >Poisoned honey is just not a positive descriptor. Will
> >we have a teacher who doesn't like Harry? 
> 
> Umm. . . 
> 


bboy_mn:

Well, I still think it could be Mr. Figg.

Harry could come into DADA and find his sweet but somewhat eccentric
babysitter there. First, he would be surprised to find that she was a
witch, although that would certainly explain why he saw her as a mad
old lady with too many cats.

So on one hand we have this sweet old lady, but on the other hand she
could be a grueling taskmaster. Given the dark and dangerous times
that are upon them, and given how far behind they are in their DADA
knowledge and experience having had only one decent DADA teacher, she
may push the longer and harder than they have ever been pushed. Given
that they are studying for OWLs which I suspect is grueling in itself,
and now she is pushing them with grueling practice session and tons of
homework, it could put a bit of a strain on their relationship.

It could make the students view even the nicest teacher in a negative
light, if she pushed them that hard.

My second best guess for DADA teacher is Mrs. Weasley. Mostly because
I think it would be so cool, at least for me a reader, to see Ron have
his mother for a teacher. Mrs. Weasley is also a person who has a dual
presonality, she is very loving and compassionate, but she doesn't cut
people much slack, and she can be very demanding. So we have the same
scenario here as with Mrs. Figg, a very nice person who is a 'take no
crap' grueling taskmaster.

As cool as I think it would be, I really don't have strong belief that
the new DADA teacher will be Mrs. Weasley. 

Just a thought. 

bboy_mn