Flitwick

[Freeman, Louise Margaret]

No: HPFGUIDX 89457

This may be movie contamination, but I wonder if Flitwick isn't secretly 
half elf.  (Before the movie, I merely pictured him as an extremely short 
human...  in the film he reminded me of a Munchkin). Elves, as a group, seem 
especially good at Charms (Dobby made the pudding hover without a wand, and 
they certainly use charms in their houscleaning duties) , making it a 
natural subject for him to teach,  and the box of sugar mice he slipped 
Harry as a thank-you after the Skeeter interview in OotP seemed like a bit 
of elfish mischief.

It certainly falls within Dumbledore's character to put a half-elf on the 
faculty, along with the half-giant and and the cenataur.

Another possibility is that he's half-goblin, but he seems too good-tempered 
for that.

Louise (who wants to see Sprout and Flitwick in the Order!)