Heads of houses, old Hog staff and serpent myths

[The Sparrow]

No: HPFGUIDX 53685

FlamingStar Chows (HPFGU message #3, digest 2594)
said:  
  If a
teacher is head of a house, why wouldn't they remain
head of that 
house?
Why would they move to another one, especially to make
way for someone
younger?  I would think that a person that is head of
one of the houses
would remain so until they retired, moved up
(headmaster) or asked to 
be
relieved of that duty.  If they asked to be relieved
of the duty (i.e. 
due
to advanced age), they certainly wouldn't want to take
on another.

AHHHH! I like this one. Snape would have become a
Hogwarts teacher around the early '80's. I'm gonna
assume that there was still a head of house when he
got there. Dumbledore decisions are often accepted
with a grain of salt, but appointing a known Death
Eater head of a house would ruffle parents feathers a
bit! So we might presume that Severus was taken on as
Potions master, which leaves not one but two
questions-who was head of Slytherin before Snape
and...who was Potions master before Snape?...... and
what happen to the both of them?
Well. it's nice to dream.....so here I go.
Taking the above statement the the head of the house
is of that house as a student (which i agree with),
maybe the head of house and potions master are the
same person, as they are now. Lucius seems to be too
much of a diplomat-and too intolorent of Muggles-to
ever be a teacher at Hogwarts-plus Albus knows better
than to trust a Malfoy, so he's out. Other noted past
possible Slytherins are few, my brain won't let me
remember them, so I'm going to conclude that this
mystery teacher-along with the other teacher's in his
timeline will be uncovered in the future. 
An interesting note I stumbled past on the Lexicon
however regards the story of the Bloody Baron. I know
we'll find out more about the ghosts as well, but it
is questioned whether the silvery blood stains on the
baron's robe are of Unicorn blood....Hmm...

SPARROW, who's enjoying the death of her speculator's
block! 

P.S. That crazy site about Harry potter the demon of
evil I sent last message
(http://www.seekgod.ca/topicharrypotter.htm) *did*
have something useful on it after all (never discount
*anyone's* advice!)It is mentioned in the analysis of
GoF that Voldemort's serpent Nagini is the female
version of Naga, a group of serpent water demons in
India. It is said they will eventually destroy the
world with fire, and that they are related to the
phoenix!!! I'm very excited about the
Phoenix/fire/Gryffindor vs. Nagini
serpent/water/Slytherin opposite theme!
SPARROW, who's enjoying the death of her speculator's
block! 

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