Positions in Book 7 Re: ESE!McGonagall (not what you think)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 164690

Pippin wrote:
> 
> She has a number of staff positions to fill, not only DADA but
> Transfiguration, Head of Gryffindor, and Deputy Head. Any
> guesses whom she might pick, considering that JKR says we've
> met all the important characters?
> 
Snow responded:
> 
> Not to mention Potions which is shaky ground considering Dumbledore 
> is gone and not even Dumbledore could secure the position with 
> Slughorn the first time round without Harry. 
> 
> To get on to the dilemma at hand, I would have to say that Tonks 
> would be next in line for transfiguration, given her talents. Dada, 
> however, would be crucial since we are well aware of its downfall. 
> 
> Next in line for Headmaster would be even harder than DaDa to forcast!
> 
> And Head of Gryffindor may be harder yet! <snip>

carol notes:

I don't think that Potions will be a problem. I'm sure that Slughorn
will return (there's no indication that he won't at the end of HBP).
I'm pretty sure that one of DD's considerations in hiring him was to
have a Head of House as well as a Potions Master lined up to fill
Snape's place when he was ousted by the DADA Curse (which both he and
Snape must have known was inevitable).

Deputy headmaster/mistress? The logical candidates, IMO, are Sprout
and Flitwick, both of them longtime HoHs. Whichever has more seniority
would probably get the position. (I'd like to see Sprout get the job
just to give the Hufflepuffs some honors, but I have nothing against
Flitwick, who would bring a fine sense of fairness to the job.) 

HoH of Gryffindor is harder. Are any of the teachers at Hogwarts
currently Gryffindors other than Hagrid? And would Hagrid be a
suitable candidate? Would he even want the job? (No offense to Hagrid
defenders. I'm only asking.) It might be easiest to hire a talented
Transfiguration teacher who was also a former Gryffindor and kill two
birds with one stone. I agree that Tonks would be ther perfect choice.
The kids would love her, and her Metamorphmagus abilities would get
their attention just as effectively as McG's ability to transform into
a cat. I can defintiely see her teaching Transfiguration rather than
the cursed DADA position though I realize that she's a talented Auror
as well.

DADA? Why not put the real Mad-Eye back in the position he was hired
for three years earlier? The kids need his protection even more than
they did then, and there's no danger of an imposter this time around.
That would save JKR the trouble of introducing a new character, too.

Carol, betting maybe half a (nonexistent) galleon that at least some
of her predictions are correct