Where did the money come from?/teachers

[Diana Walter]

No: HPFGUIDX 90645

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Alina" <alina at d...> wrote:
> 
Carol:
> > >  A job that doesn't pay well? How about teaching? <snippity snip>

Potioncat:
> > > How about this theory?  James and Lily Potter are teachers at
> > > Hogwarts.  Both of them are killed and now there are two openings:
> > > DADA and Potions.  Snape needs a safe place and a job, so Dumbledore
> > > hires him for potions. <more snippage>

> daw: James and Lily could have been some of those married Hogwarts faculty JKR won't talk about.

Alina:
> The only real thing that doesn't fit for me is DADA and Potions. From what
> we know, James excelled at Transfiguration and Lily as Charms. 


That actually did occur to me. One explanation I have is that they 
were the kind of people who excelled at just about everything, and 
could probably teach anything competently. Kinda lame, I know. But 
really, they probably were both good enough students across the board 
that one of them could teach Potions. DADA, which incorporates just 
about all other magical disciplines, including Transfiguration and 
Charms, would actually not be much of a stretch.

That particular issue aside, though, another thing I like about this 
theory is that it would explain how James and Lily were able to evade 
Voldemort for over a year (during a large part of which he was 
probably actively looking for them) without the Fidelius Charm. Of 
course, living at Hogwarts would normally mean that they wouldn't 
have to worry about their safety at all, but maybe they suddenly did 
have reason to worry. Maybe Dumbledore thought he would have to leave 
the school for some reason. And a Fidelius Charm with a good Secret 
Keeper would be infallible, right? The perfect plan. Well, almost.

All right, must go. Am at work.     -daw