What we find there (was: How to Get Through the Door)--SPOILERS!!!

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Finwitch wrote: > 
> Felix Felicis... if not a person, it's a plant, an animal, a 
spell, a 
> magical phenomenon... I understand how one might think of cats, 
> though - I recall some cat-food by name of Felix, and there's that 
> FELINE also... but also that James Bond's CIA friend is named 
Felix 
> Leiter. (and all their secret weapons are a bit like magic! I 
wonder 
> how JKR feels of James Bond 007..) But I like the thought of FF 
being 
> the name of new DADA professor. (And I wonder where Aberforth 
lurks).
> 

****Like many other posters, my first thought about that chapter 
name was that it was the new DADA teacher, maybe even connected with 
the 'feline-like' description of that other clue JKR gave us earlier 
(orangy hair, bandy legs, lion-like mane, etc)....

But then I thought that it could also be the name of the new 
Minister of Magic, people could find it 'optimistic' to have a new 
minister with such a name in times of War... after all, this is 
chapter 14 when he/she shows up (that is , if its a person), a bit 
too late for a DADA teacher to show up, especially considering the 
previous five books, in which we've learned of the new DADA fairly 
earlier than chapter 14, with OoTP having the most 'Summer break' 
chapters and yet getting Dolores Umbridge officially introduced as 
DADA teacher by chapter 12.
I know, there are other better possible candidates for that job, but 
during Harry's hearing in OoTP, we learned that the Wizengamot was 
composed of more than 50 members, and Harry could barely see them 
from his lower stand... It wouldn't be surprising to find that one 
of them, perhaps one that voted in favor of Harry's dismissal of 
charges, was this Felix Felicis character.

Just adding more to the 'pondering pool bank'... 

Marcela