Assuming they survive... -- teacher at Hogwarts

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 147003

 
> Hickengruendler:
> 
> And especially in 1999, 4 years before we first read about her, 
> absolutely nobody would have thought about Luna. ;-) Which is one 
> reason why I think JKR doesn't mean Luna. It would be really unfair 
> to give the kids a chance to guess, if the characters is someone 
> impossible to guess.

Potioncat:
Agreed. It would be someone we'd met at that time.

Hickengruendler:
 The second reason is, that at least to my 
> understanding of the word (though English is not my first 
language), 
> Luna is not a "classmate". To me, Harry's classmates are Ron (who 
is 
> ruled out by the interview), Hermione (who is IMO ruled out as 
well), 
> Neville, Seamus, Dean, Parvati and Lavender. You might include the 
> other students in Harry's year, particularly the Slytherins and 
> Hufflepuffs, with whom he had some lessons together, but Hogwarts 
> students in a totally different year than Harry are IMO not his 
> classmates.


Potioncat:
I've thought for a long time this was a hard one...although JKR 
probably wasn't trying to be overly tricky. Classmate could just mean 
those students who actually had classes with you. Or it could mean 
any of the students in the same year as you. Or it could mean any 
student who was at school about the same time as you. It depends a 
lot on context, and how precise the speaker is.

I think Neville is a strong choice, but I'm still voting for Percy.

It was suggested upthread that Neville might become a Healer. But 
Neville wasn't able to take the courses required for Healer. So I 
think that's out. My prediction is that Ron becomes a Healer. He was 
reading about it, complained at the requirements, but is taking those 
same courses for Auror.