Miranda Goshawk/Sirius...

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 55282

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Star Opal" <starropal at h...> 
wrote:
> Okay, yet ANOTHER suggestion for the new DADA teacher: Miranda 
Goshawk. 
> She's the one who writes The Standard Book of Spells (Grade _) 
books that 
> Harry gets each year.
> 
> She's female and we've never met her before. Sounds like potential 
to me. 
> Besides, except for CoS there's no real point of telling the 
readers the 
> names of Harry's text books and their authors. In all four books 
TSBoS(G_) 
> have been mentioned, three of which also include the author's name. 
(P/SS ch 
> 5, CoS ch 4, PoA ch 4, GoF ch 10)

Yes, every detail counts. So - Miranda Goshawk could be a new 
teacher. DADA-teachers-pattern has been that we never *heard* a word 
of them until they gain the position, but as we are past half-way, I 
suppose all characters *are* already mentioned. Miranda Goshawk 
*might* hold the position for more than a year - and at least, she's 
mentioned as a book-author. Clue in CoS? Lockhart was *also* an 
author of *several* books...

Then again, if Sirius ever gets free (the earlier the better, so that 
we can hear more about James Potter&co at school) - he might become a 
teacher... For some reason, I can only imagine Sirius Black as either 
the transfiguration teacher, possibly added with Gryffindor-head-of-
house (Supposedly Dumbledore died, and McGonagall hired him, or 
McGonagall died and Dumbledore hired him), or working at Honeydukes 
so that Harry can *easily* visit him via the secret passage + Sirius 
would have quick access to chocolate to deal with Dementor-after-
effects... Not that he's not experienced with DADA, but since Remus 
had that job, Potter's-best-friend-as-DADA_teacher has been used...

-- Finwitch