LONG collection of DH related thoughts.

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 172951

 
> Joe wrote:
> 
> > Senseless Deaths - This is war, alas, and people (owls & elves 
> > included) die. They die for being in the wrong place at the wrong 
> > time. They die regardless of who loved them, or what they stood 
> for. 
> > Now, the death of the Muggle Studies teacher struck me as WILDLY 
> > inelegant. It reminded me of those Star Trek episodes when a 
> > character you'd never seen before schleps down to Planet Zork 
with 
> > Kirk, Bones and Spock...you just KNOW that guy's dead before the 
> > third commercial break. 
> 
> va32h here:
> Charity "Red Shirt" Burbage, eh? Yes, I agree - to have the last 
book 
> open with the death of a character we've never actually heard of 
> before...that's pretty weak. And again - so very easily fixable, as 
> Hermione took Muggle Studies and the teacher's name could have been 
> inserted any time from PoA on. And if Charity's death was a new 
idea 
> that hadn't been in the Big Outline, well then JKR should have 
chosen 
> another teacher, whose name we did know. Professor Vector, the 
> Arithmancy witch or Professor Sinestra, the Astronomy teacher. 
Seeing 
> as Voldemort spent all of OoTP obsessing over the prophecy, I would 
> think Sybill Trelawney would be the Hogwarts teacher he would most 
> want to capture and interrogate. 

Hickengruendler:

No, it had to be the Muggle studies teacher. Maybe JKR could have 
mentioned the name earlier, but it still had to be her, and not 
Trelawney or Sinistra. Because there's a dark irony, that the two 
Death Eaters in Deathly Hallows were teaching Muggle studies and 
DADA, the two subjects who are directly related to fighting 
Voldemort/ tolerating and accepting other cultures. If they were 
teaching Divination and Astronomy, it would have been much less 
significant.