Although having a new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher every year's become routine, this year's version was a new departure in several ways. First, she was female---well, sort of. I know perfectly well that I'm no Veela, but I don't think she had enough sex appeal to lure a martyr off a red-hot griddle. Second, it was quite clear from the beginning that she thought that she was infinitely Dumbledore's superior---and that we, the pupils, were little better than six-year-olds. I don't think she had any experience with people our age more recent than when she was our age herself. She apparently thought she was as appealing as Gilderoy Lockhart was, at least on the surface, but I noticed that she didn't seem to notice that nobody took her speech seriously, unlike, say, Dumbledore, who commands attention effortlessly.