[HPforGrownups] NEW DADA Teacher

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 49647



srsiriusblack at aol.com wrote:
> 
> I knew I had read it somewhere.... but with a computer problem this
> week I
> hadn't been able to get my web browsers to work properly.. now that I
> have...
> 
> JKR says in an interview to CBBC Newsround that there will be a new
> Defence
> Against the Dark Arts Teacher and it will be a woman.
> 
> ( I am still standing by my certaintity that it will NOT be Fleur
> Delcour...
> urgh, how I loathe her)
> 
> The interview can be seen at:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/uk/newsid_2269000/2269270.stm
> 
> and it was given in Sept. 2002.
> 
> I still think our new DADA professor will be a new character- i.e. Not
> Mrs
> Figg or Fleur "Look at my silvery hair and tell me you will give me
> the
> world" Delacour.
> 
> It would be nice for her to be an adventurer with real life experience
> in
> fighting the dark arts under her belt. And, I still want her to be
> Snape's
> interest. It might soften him up a bit. <wink> Of course, for Snape
> not to
> despise her, she would have to know just as much about Curses and Evil
> as he
> does, but let's hope she has a gentler demeanour.
> 
> -Snuffles, still praying Snape finds love. :)
> 
>

I for one feel the new DADA teacher will be a new character we have not
seen yet.  As for Fleur, I can't see her wanting to teach at Hoggwarts,
since all she could do is complain about the place and go on about how
her school was so much better..

Snape is twice Fleur's age and there's no way any publisher would allow
that match to get through in canon.  These books are marketed as
children's books after all, which means you are not apt to see any
openly gay characters, any matches where there is more then just a
couple years difference in the ages or any relationships between humans
and non-humanoids (giants are humanoid, a sea serpent, centaur or
sphinx, while intelligent, are not due to not being built like a human.)

I think that wild conjectures like Snape falling in love with a student
half his age will fall prey to the editor's axe.  I know that many
books, go through 2, 3 or more rewrites, being sent back filled with
comments by the editors, who make sure the book won't overly offend
anyone.  (The Eaton Collection at UC Riverside in CA has archives of
some writers first, second, third, etc drafts, which can be educational
for new writers to see where famous authors made 'mistakes' that the
editor caught or the editor asked for parts to be changed or removed due
to fear that people might get offended or that a section didn't fit
somehow with the rest of the story.

Jazmyn