DADA job

[kmcbears1]

No: HPFGUIDX 116312


> > <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.
>
> Jim Ferer wrote: 
> 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.
> 
kmc replies:
Lupin will not return as DADA professor. He resigned because in the 
heat of the moment he forgot to take his potion and put the students 
at Hogwarts in danger.  If Moody was willing to return, DD would 
never had to accept Umbridge as a Hogwarts professor.  
JKR has used the DADA post as a catalyst for each book.  IMO she will 
continue to do this with a different DADA teacher for book 6 & 7.

If as you say "protecting Harry" is a necessity, why hasn't Harry 
been protected for the first 15 years of his life?  These are Harry's 
stories therefore he must be the one to get into and out of mortal 
peril.  

I think Molly's boggart was a hint for us to except some deaths in 
the Weasley family.  I don't think the trio is in danger prior to 
book 7.  I also do not think the attack on Hogwarts will come before 
the final book so Ginny is probably safe for at least one more book.  
I don't expect to see much of G&F in book 6 unless they open a branch 
store in Hogsmeade.  This is possible but I think that is more a book 
7 than book 6 possiblity.  That leaves Bill, Charlie, and Percy.  
Percy has questionable status as good/bad guy and JKR is not likely 
to resolve that in book 6.  Charlie is still with the dragons and 
would be more likely to take over Hagrid's job than the DADA so that 
leaves Bill as the most likely Weasley to die in Book 6.

kmc