Krums Future & Quidditch AND Fleur

[bluesqueak <pipdowns@etchells0.demon.co.uk>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49508

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve <bboy_mn at y...>" 
<bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> Krum coming to Hogwarts-
> The having to repeat his last year idea is good, but I think he 
> will come to Hogwarts for some 'post graduate' work. Since there 
> is  a lot of emphasis on Dark Arts at Durmstrang, Krum may feel 
> that other areas of his education were neglected by the school.   
> So he will attend Hogwarts for a year to round out his 
> education... and of course, be close to Hermione. 

He probably won't *have* to repeat his last year, since in GoF it's 
stated that Champions were exempt from end of year tests anyway. In 
the British WW, this would have meant Cedric didn't have to take his 
NEWTS. 

This implies that having been School Champion is more prestigious on 
your job application forms than even the highest grade NEWTS. Given 
the amount of work and research Harry has to do, being Champion 
probably *is* harder and requires a higher quality of work than is 
normal in the last year of school.

> Bboy:
> Fleur at Hogwarts-
> I think she will be there but I'm not sure in what capacity. If 
> she is DADA teacher, I don't see her getting a lot of respect or 
> cooperation from the students because she is clearly not up to the 
> job. However, her goal is to improve her English, so she may take 
> on an unpaid position as a teaching assistant. But what subject 
> though? What talent has she demonstrated that would indicate which 
> subject she would be good at? ....don't know. None that I can see. 
> I'm sure she is an adequate witch, but other than beguiling boys, 
> what is she good at? 

Judging by her selection of spells for the Triwizard Tournament (a 
sleeping charm or something for the dragon, and a Bubblehead Charm 
in the Second Task), Fleur's speciality is Charms, not DADA.

The WW has no universities. This *possibly* means that they might 
use the Victorian 'pupil teacher' method of teacher training. In 
this method a student teacher still attends higher level lessons or 
is given one to one training by the 'trained' teacher, but is 
expected to take some of the lower level classes themselves (under 
supervision).

So Flitwick would still be the Charms teacher, but Fleur might, for 
example, be taking the first years for most of their Charms lessons.

This may explain the Quirrel contradiction; Hagrid and Percy both 
seem to know him, but DADA teachers seem to have had a notoriously 
short life span for some years before Harry arrives.  In this theory 
Quirrel was NOT the DADA teacher until Harry's first year. Before 
that he was the DADA pupil teacher, still in training.

Bboy:
> Her presents certainly does complicate the Harry/Ron/Hermione/Krum
> quadrangle. 
> 

How would Fleur come into contact with Harry? Well, Hogwarts doesn't 
seem to include foreign languages in the curriculum. Possibly 
languages are treated as 'extra curricular'; pupils can take them, 
but outside normal lesson time. We don't see much of 'extra 
curricular' activities (except for the Duelling Club) because 
Harry's on the House Quidditch team, and that takes up much of 
his 'free' time.

So pupil teacher Fleur might also perhaps help out in, say, the 
French conversation club. Since she's part Veela, and hormones are 
likely to be rampant in Book 5, I can easily see Harry and Ron 
developing a sudden desire to learn French.

Support for this theory comes from the fact that JKR trained to 
teach French, and would have absolutely no problem writing scenes 
partly in French...

Pip!Squeak