DADA Teacher in HBP (and Possibly book 7)

[Lissa Hess]

No: HPFGUIDX 107650

Now Phil suggests:
>For book six DADA teacher?
>Nymphadora Tonks
>She could teach Harry Concealment and Disguise
>Plus be the sexy young female teacher that all of the boys have crushes on.
>Smiles,
>Phil

Lissa:

Phil, I also started thinking it was an OotP member.

I have a couple of thoughts.  I like the idea of Lupin, for a lot of 
non-main plot related reasons.  I'm wondering how he and Snape will relate 
to each other now that Sirius is gone.  (Does anyone else suspect there 
might be something more of a history there?  I'm still sticking by my 
theory that they were friends the first year and one of the reasons Snape 
despises Sirius and James was they "stole" Lupin from him.)  I also think 
Lupin and Harry are going to have difficulties in their relationship, and 
that's much more pronounced if Lupin's at Hogwarts.  Finally, if I were 
Dumbledore, I'd totally have this guy on some sort of suicide watch 
anyways.  Seriously.  How much more can one person take?

Reasons it might not be Lupin?  What sort of mysterious work is he doing 
for the order?  (My guess is some sort of liason with other critters or 
other countries where it's not quite so well-known that he's a werewolf, 
but as he points out in OotP, it's not like he's running around convincing 
other wizards.)

Moody is an attractive possibility, but I'm thinking he's needed in other 
areas.  Plus, he's just not as much fun to have around- he seems pretty 
straightforward to me.

I keep thinking Tonks is cannon fodder.  (Either that or the conciliatory 
love interest for Lupin, which is an idea I really hate.)  But I could see 
her being an interesting DADA teacher.

If it's somebody we've met, I have a really interesting bet: Bill 
Weasley.  If he's been cursebreaking for Gringotts, he's got to be pretty 
darn good at DADA.  Will he leave his job at the bank?  Heh.  Maybe he's 
tired of travel and more interested in spending time at home (ahem, with 
Fleur).

So, my bets are for Lupin and/or Bill Weasley.

Lissa