Miranda Goshawk...

[Star Opal]

No: HPFGUIDX 55290

Finwitch was very wonderful and replied:
>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 <SNIP>

True, but they've also all been male, so perhaps that'll change. So we have 
someone we've heard of, but we haven't met - a compromise?

In an effort to figure out why this name bothers me so much I've looked 
through all the authors. There are ten in all who are mentioned by name 
(some book titles are given but not authors). Only two of them have more 
than one book - Lockhart and Miranda Goshawk. She's also the only one to 
appear, not only in more than one HP book, but ALL the books.

Why include the books at all? In P/SS there's quite a bit of humor (Emeric 
Switch, Phyllida Spore), in CoS it establishes Lockhart's character, PoA it 
gives a hint to Hagrid's teaching and the Grim, BUT in GoF _The Basic Book 
of Spells_ by Miranda Goshawk is the ONLY book mentioned, for no, as yet, 
apparent reason. For all four HP books there's no real reason to include the 
book, especially after P/SS. If she's not the next DADA teacher then there 
must be SOME significance.

As for name analysis:
Miranda means, admirable, beautiful, wonderful and was invented by William 
Shakespeare for the young heroine of The Tempest.

Goshawk: A large powerful hawk (Accipiter gentilis) having broad rounded 
wings, a long tail, and gray or brownish plumage.
Hawks, depending on where you look, symbolize different things. The sun, 
messengers, BUT also death, injustice, violence, and those people who prey 
upon the weak.

Poisoned honey anyone?

>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

I agree with the Transfiguration angle more, but if he does become a teacher 
I think it'll be after VW2. In the epilogue perhaps?

Star Opal
who will have to fight the urge to flip to where the next DADA will be 
revealed