teacher (was: Re: [HPFGUOver40] Chapter titles from Half-blood Prince)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 117841


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Schlobin at a... wrote:
    
> I am wondering (this has probably been discussed) if Harry will 
become the  
> teacher or at least the "student teacher" for the Defense Against 
the Dark Arts 
>  in Book VI.  After all, he has successfully taught/coached his 
classmates  
> -- Neville has improved exponentially -- several have passed their 
O.W.Ls 
> thanks  to Harry's tutelage.
>  
> Susan McGee in Michigan
>  
> 
> 
Hickengruendler 

>From this http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/1099-
connectiontransc.html link: 

(The person who asks on the phone is a teacher, and her students are 
with her).

Question: Anyway, it's very exciting. We just love Harry Potter. 
We're curious ---- well first of all we can't wait for Books 4, 5, 6 
and 7. But after that, we're curious as to whether Harry is going to 
have a life after Hogwarts, or if maybe, Harry might be a Hogwarts 
teacher. 

Answer Rowling: Well, because all your kids said `hello' so nicely in 
the background there, I am going to give you information I haven't 
given anyone else and I will tell you that one of the characters, one 
of Harry's classmates, though it's not Harry himself, does end up a 
teacher at Hogwarts. But, it is not, maybe the one you think, hint, 
hint, hint. Yeah, one of them does end up staying at Hogwarts, but ---
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Do the kids want to guess at it, Kathleen?

Q: Do you guys have a guess as to who it is?
(Kids shouting in background) Ron
They say Ron.

A: No, it's not Ron. I can't see Ron as a teacher. No way. 
 
Therefore Harry won't become a teacher, if Rowling didn't change her 
mind. He might teach the DA again, but after Hogwarts he'll do 
something else (if he's still alive). This interview also rules out 
Ron and, since it was in 1999 and therefore before the rumours about 
everyone else becoming a teacher began, basically Hermione. Since 
it's likely that JKR meant her with "maybe the one you think". This 
interview is the reason, why many fans, including me, think that 
Neville will become a Hogwarts teacher. There is one canon scene that 
might hint at this as well. In one of his dreams in OotP Harry dreams 
that Neville and Professor Sprout are waltzing through the RoR with 
McGonagall playing the bagpipes. Seeing that Harry's dream are often 
used as foreshadowing (for example the one about Quirrel's turban in 
book 1) this could mean that McGonagall will be the new Headmistress 
(having the command), and Neville, who in this dream is linked with 
Sprout, will be the new Herbology teacher. Of course this is just 
specualtion, JKR might have put the dream in to remind us about 
Neville's general interest in Herbology, which was shown us from the 
very first book one and therefore has to have some significance.

Hickengruendler