DADA job (was Re: CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Chapter 29)

[cat_kind]

No: HPFGUIDX 116273


Potioncat:
> >
> > Snape fans don't want him in DADA (come to think of it, neither 
do 
> > his foes.) The assumption is that if a person teaches DADA they 
must 
> > come to a bad end at the end of the book.  So, would JKR be 
arrested 
> > if someone lasted to the following book?  Would we be on the 
edge of 
> > our seats waiting for the ax to fall...and could there be a 
> > satifying resolution to a happy ending for the DADA teacher? (Be 
it 
> > Snape or Alberforth or person of your choice)


bboyminn:
> 
> The easiest and smoothest transition seems to be number Three. But 
we
> know that the DADA teachers rarely last more than a year. That 
would
> imply deep deep trouble for Snape. It would seem that Snape would
> either be dead or disgraced by the end of the next book. 
> 
> As to the curse on the DADA job, first I don't think, as others 
have
> speculated, that a curse was cast upon the job by someone. 
Sometimes
> things just get jinxed by a fickled twist of fate, and I think the
> fickled twist of fate that has jinxed this job is Harry. Once Harry
> goes, the jinx goes with him. 



catkind:  In every book yet we have had a new character as DADA 
teacher, and they've come to a sticky end as Potioncat says.  
Therefore I predict that NEITHER of these things will happen in the 
next book.
  
I don't think JKR is that unoriginal, and it would be too obvious -
it only worked in OotP because of the twist that it was clear from 
the very start that Umbridge was nasty and had to go.  We've done 
nice teacher who has to leave.  We've done disguised nasty teacher 
twice.  We've done incompetent teacher.  We've done openly nasty 
teacher. What else is there?
  
So surely it has to be someone we know? Snape, one of the members of 
the Order, an Auror, maybe even Dumbledore or Harry himself in a 
pinch.  I'm rooting for Snape because I think it would be the most 
interesting read.  
 
Whoever gets the job we'll all be on the edge of our seats waiting 
for something dire to happen to them, and they'll be thoroughly 
scrutinised for evil tendencies.  Sounds to me like a great front 
for interesting happenings elsewhere!

So I'm for a known character, and a strong red herring that they're 
up to no good/ about to get killed in a nasty way, but that they 
should survive.  

catkind