DADA job

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 116311


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kmcbears1"
<karen.e.mcconnell at l...> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> Steve/bboyminn
> 
> > The problem with DADA teachers isn't that there aren't any qualified
> > people in the wizard world. It's that nobody really wants the job in
> > the first place, and even more so, now that people think the job is
> > jinxed. I mean really, if you are a capable and competent Dark
> > Wizard/Dark Arts fighter, do you really want to spend all your time
> > fighting with unwilling, uncooperative, and uninterested kids? I 
> think
> > not.
> > 
> kmc writes:
> What about Bill Weasley for the DADA teacher?
> He was head boy and got twelve owls.
> He worked as a curse breaker for Gringotts.
> He went to assist the MOM during the Quidditch Cup when trouble broke 
> out. 
> 
> I think Bill Weasley with his cool clothes, long hair, earring and 
> dislike of Snape would provide a lot of interesting reading as the 
> new DADA professor.

Bill would be very good for the job, but this is what I'd do if I was
Headmaster:

The students would begin taking doubled DADA lessons.  Lupin *and*
Mooney would both return; Lupin will teach the younger students, and
Moody teaches the older students the rough stuff.  Harry will be a
teaching assistant, leading the DA, which is now an official Hogwarts
practice group of the fifth, sixth, and seventh year NEWT DADA students.

How is this possible?  Dumbledore is large and in charge now; Fudge's
objections to a werewolf or to Mad-Eye don't count for anything
anymore.  The parents will go along with anything Dumbledore thinks is
good and in the best interests of protecting the students.

Here's another reason for arranging things this way: Lupin and Moody
will be close to Harry and his friends.  Protecting Harry Potter and
his friends is an absolute strategic necessity for the wizard world.

Bill's got an important part to play, I'll bet.

Jim Ferer