Sirius's death, Predictions for next book

[hickengruendler]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "laylalast" <liliana at w...> 
wrote:
> greatlit2003 wrote:
> 
> <snips part of post> 
> > 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).

But there is more in the interview. She also said, that it is not the 
most likely candidate (in other words Hermione), and then she 
asked: "Who do you think it is?" The audience said "Ron", and the 
answer was. "No, it isn't Ron either." Of course it can still be a 
minor character, but currently, I am totally convinced it is Neville, 
either in Herbology or in DADA.

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