CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 29, Career Advice

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> Alla:
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> I agree, most of the time JKR plants very skillfull clues (as long 
> as we forget about Mark Evans fiasco :o))
> 
> Let's speculate that McGonagall and Dumbledore are both dead at the 
> end. Who do you think will be a Headmaster?

catkind: 
The remaining Heads of House would seem to be the obvious candidates,
i.e. Snape, Flitwick and Sprout.  Snape seems to be a generally nasty
piece of work, and I wouldn't put very high odds on him surviving the
series either, so we are left with Flitwick and Sprout. We haven't
heard much about either of them, but we have to assume some leadership
qualities and they seem to be good and unbiased teachers. 

It would be nice to think the WW will be sufficiently revolutionised
that Lupin is a candidate.  He seems to be one of the cooler heads in
the books, and is depicted as an inspired/inspiring teacher, even
above McGonagall. I could see him slipping into the wise leader role,
if he's got over the blind loyalty to his friends.  The poor sod
hardly has friends left to be blindly loyal to.