Theory on James and Lilly Potters occupations

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No: HPFGUIDX 107623

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <snow15145 at y...> wrote:
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> OOP chap. Career advice- pg.670 US "
And Snape was just this little 
> oddball who was up to his eyes in the Dark Arts and James- whatever 
> else he may have appeared to you, Harry- always hated the Dark Arts."
> 
> I personally don't recall an instance throughout the series that 
> would have implied to Harry that James liked the dark arts so why 
> this statement? 
> 
> If James had been a dark arts teacher he was possibly teaching 
> the "defense" of the dark arts. Maybe that's whom Lupin learned his 
> wonderful teaching skills from.



Hi all, Jan here, my first post, and my apologies if I'm repeating
something already in the archives...

While there are problems w/ James being DADA teacher at the time of
his and Lily's death (i.e., why were they at GH, not Hogwarts?), I
really like this idea -- and perhaps James was a teacher, say, the
year before their deaths (perhaps left Hogwarts because of the baby? 
Would *you* want to raise a baby there?  Would it be allowed?)

One of the reasons I like this idea:  It ties nicely with Harry being,
as it were, "born" to the job of teaching his clandestine DADA. 
Harry's a great DADA teacher because (in part) he inherited his
father's gifts. 

Just a thought.

--Jan