Chapter Fourteen of HBP; aka Lupinlore's Big OOPS

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 128676

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
> I've noticed in the responses to Tigerpatronus' HBP prediction 
> challenge that most people (including me) have chosen Felix Felicis 
> for the new DADA teacher.  However, over on Sugarquill, I've been 
> reminded that the chapter entitled "Felix Felicis" is numbered 
> Chapter Fourteen.
> 
> Now, one would expect that, if Felix Felicis was a person, he would 
> be introduced in the chapter named for him.  That's the way in 
> worked with "Luna Lovegood" in OOTP, and although it isn't 
definite, 
> it would seem very odd if that weren't the case.  Chapter Fourteen 
> is awfully late to be introducing the new DADA teacher.  Even if we 
> allow for a lot happening in the summer, the Hogwarts' year should 
> be well underway by then.
> 
> Lupinlore

Hickengruendler:

Mad-Eye Moody, Dolores Umbridge and Gilderoy Lockhart (therefore all 
DADA teachers who had chapters named after them) all were introduced 
in a chapter before the one named after them. Professor Umbridge is 
the 12th chapter of OotP and Mad-Eye Moody the 13th of GoF. Therefore 
it's not totally impossible that this time chapter 14 is named after 
the DADA teacher. Especially considering, that JKR said this summer 
would be the shortest stay at the Dursleys, and therefore there is 
theoretically more time between Harry leaving the Dursleys and him 
arriving in Hogwarts. (Of course we don't know how much of this time 
is important for the plot and how much will be left out).