Parallel between the Potions Puzzle and the DADA teachers?

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 109605

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "alshainofthenorth" 
<alshainofthenorth at y...> wrote:
> 
> Three of the bottles are poison.
> Two of them are nettle wine (duds, if you will).
> One of them is aimed backwards, at the past.
> One of them is aimed forwards, at the future and Voldemort.
> 
> Granted, the potion bottles could symbolise almost anything that 
> comes in groups of seven (like a Quidditch team), but I'm going to 
> try it out on the seven DADA teachers. For the sake of this 
> argument, I'm going to suppose (and I don't think it's 
> unreasonable), that there are going to be two more DADA teachers 
> at Hogwarts, the last of whom may or may not be Snape. (I'm 
> leaning towards the latter - if Dumbledore doesn't think it's good 
> for him to teach DADA under fourteen years of peace, I doubt he's 
> going to change his mind after Voldemort has returned. And Harry 
> is out of the reckoning.)
> 
> DADA teachers symbolised by the bottles of Poison: Quirrell, 
> Crouch Jr and Umbridge.
> 
> DADA teacher symbolised by nettle wine: Lockhart. (Besides, after 
> enough alcohol you're going to feel like you've had your memory 
> modified.) :-)
> 
> DADA teacher symbolising the past: Lupin.
> (This is somewhat open to interpretation: 
> 
> This leaves one "nettle wine" teacher and the one who will guide 
> Harry to his goal, in other words Voldemort. On the other hand, if 
> these assumptions are correct, the "poison" quota is filled. 

Valky:
Wooooaaaah good stuff AL!
You know, I don't think you're misconstruing the potions at all by 
adding a parrallel. Rather I think that the sequence of sevens was 
intended from the start and that certain things were always meant to 
be following it. The DADA teachers *of course* are among those 
things. Does this alleviate your concerns, because it *is* a really 
brilliant point that you have made.

I must concur with you on Snapes chances *under DD* of gaining the 
DADA position. However, somehow I think he still will get there in 
the end. 

You have said that an *innocuous* DADA teacher is one of the 
two 'yet to come', but I have a feeling that a twist is in order. 
We have been given to percieve Umbridge as 'poison' with JKRs 
description of her (Poisoned honey) and her proximity to evil doing. 
However essentially she was not *directly* involved in the leading 
of Harry to Voldemort. Which is why I must debate that the *duds* 
have come and gone. What we have left, I think, is the 
seeker/forward teacher and the last bottle of Poison.  
Hmmmmm does that make Snape's chances look higher to you?