Sirius's death, Predictions for next book

[laylalast]

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greatlit2003 wrote:

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> 3. JKR said that someone unexpected will be teacher at Hogwarts at 
> the end of Book 7. I remember reading that somewhere, but I don't 
> have the interview. Could this teacher be Harry? Who would be more 
> qualified to teach DADA after he kills V-mort?
> 
> thanks for reading all my babbling. any thoughts about this?

Lilian:

I'm just answering to your last question. JKR in fact said (The 
Connection 12 October 1999):

" Q: But after that, we're curious as to whether Harry is going to 
have a life after Hogwarts, or if maybe, Harry might be a Hogwarts 
teacher. 
A: Well, because all your kids said `hello' so nicely in the 
background there, I am going to give you information I haven't given 
anyone else and I will tell you that one of the characters, one of 
Harry's classmates, though it's not Harry himself, does end up a 
teacher at Hogwarts. But, it is not, maybe the one you think, hint, 
hint, hint. Yeah, one of them does end up staying at Hogwarts, but ---
-"

It's in the quick-quill archives at the Leaky Cauldron website.

So, it is definitely not Harry who will become a teacher. It doesn't 
say either that the classmate in question will become a teacher 
before the series is over, which leads me to think that in the 
epilogue that JKR claims that she has already written, it will then 
be revealed who ends up being a teacher. 
But as to whom I'm as much in the dark as you are, although I would 
say at this moment that it's either Neville or Hermione (doing a 
revolt in teaching methods <g> as some of us listees feel that these 
are lacking).