OOP: DADA (with spoilers)

[peterhbrine]

No: HPFGUIDX 65151

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "thomac77" <thomac77 at y...> 
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sonjaaiston" 
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> > Before, the typical end-of-year vacancy of the DADA postition was 
> > comical.  I expected there to be a vacancy at the end of this 
year 
> > also.  I was not at all concerned before, but now I am. The 
> > beginning of DA made me realize that nearly a whole generation of 
> > students is not being prepared properly in DADA.  How long has it 
> > been since the school has had a regular DADA professor?  I would 
> > think (especially with the ensuing 2nd war) that Dumbledore would 
> > find an adequate professor (even if he had to do it himself!).  
> > Since Snape wants the postition, why not give it to him.  
Whatever 
> > problems that might pose, they can't possibly be as bad as 
sending 
> > out class after class of graduates that can't defend themselves 
> > against Voldemort and his followers.
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> > I have tried to see if anyone else has discussed this and haven't 
> > found any posts, but I am "just a little" overwhelmed by the 
> volume 
> > of posts and couldn't possibly have read them all.  
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> > sonja
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> YOu know who I was thinking would be a good DADA teacher for next 
> year?  Tonks!  We know she likes kids (amusing Ginny & Hermione at 
> the dinner table) and we know she knows her DADA stuff (because we 
> are told repeatedly that only the best of the best become Aurors), 
> but she is new enough to being an Auror that the MoM might not miss 
> her too much if she took a leave of absence to teach at Hogwarts.
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> What do you think?
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> -Carisa

I think it is an interesting idea, but I'd hate to wish the kind of 
disappointing end the position normally leads to on Tonks.

-Peter