Harry's future...

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No: HPFGUIDX 106235

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cincimaelder"
<cincimaelder at y...> wrote:
> I'm not sure if anyone has ever suggested this because I'm fairly
new
> to this board, but I believe Harry will be the Defense Against the
> Dark Arts teacher at the end of the series.

Yes!  Lots of signs have been pointing that way, apart from his
experience of teaching the DA.

* They've run out of potential teachers (or else the Ministry wouldn't
have been able to appoint Umbridge).  Even before her, Dumbledore was
reduced to getting Moody out of retirement, and hiring a known
werewolf, and goodness knows what possessed him to hire Gilderoy
Lockhart!

* The Time-Turner might provide a way for him to teach and study for
his NEWTs at the same time.

* With Sirius gone, I'd expect Lupin to step into the role of
godfather.  Lupin can't teach again, but he can advise.  Hermione will
be a big help, too.

* It will bring Harry into the ultimate conflict with Snape.  Imagine
Snape's feelings when the job he's coveted for years goes to his most
hated pupil!

* What better way to instil a sense of doom than to give the poor boy
the job with the highest mortality/dropout rate in the wizarding
world?  Let's see, one teacher dead, one incapacitated by memory loss,
one Kissed, one imprisoned so that he never got to teach in the first
place, and one nervous breakdown.  Lupin was the only one who got away
with his health intact (or at least no worse than it was to start
with).

* Apparently JKR has said that someone unexpected will become DADA
teacher, and/or that a student will become DADA teacher.  I don't have
a reference for this except that it's on two of the Fantastic Posts
pages.  I also don't know whether she was talking about this happening
in the time-frame of the books, or at some point after the story ends.

I suggest Dumbledore for DADA teacher in book 6.  Hogwarts needs
someone good, and he's clearly eminently well qualified if he can only
find the time.  Also, just as killing Sirius was the best way for JKR
to hurt Harry in book 5, losing Dumbledore somehow is the worst thing
she can do now to hurt the Order of the Phoenix and the anti-Voldemort
movement as a whole.  They all rely on him far too much, and now we've
seen that he's fallible, he could easily be fallible again.  With him
out of the way, Harry really will be the best candidate left.

> - When Harry was teaching DA the Patronus charm in OoP, they seemed
to
> do better than Harry did on his first shot at it.  Both Cho and
> Hermione where able to summon an animal, and all Harry was able to
> manage at first was some wisps vapor.

Maybe it's just because they're older.  But also, they didn't have a
Boggart to practise on, did they?  The Boggart would only work for
Harry, since other people have other fears.  So it's easier for them.
 (And the very fact that Harry's worst fear is Dementors makes the
Patronus Charm harder for him, surely.)

Eleanor