Five Hogwarts Professors That We Barely Saw

The professors at Hogwarts played a huge part in the students’ educations. Every teacher had an incredibly difficult and important job to do, so it’s no wonder they grabbed any moment of fun when they could. Although we were introduced to several of the teachers, there was a range of professors that, due to time constraints, had a very minor role on screen. Here are five teachers that we barely saw in any of the films.

1. Professor Septima Vector

Professor Vector taught Arithmancy, a subject focused on the magical properties of numbers, including predicting the future with numbers and numerology. Besides a brief glimpse of her in the films, we never saw her in the films or the books. Instead, she was described as being incredibly strict. The etymology of her name is fitting since it comes from the Latin “septima,” which translates to “the seventh” – a powerful magical number.

2. Professor Aurora Sinistra

Professor Sinistra taught Astronomy for at least ten years at Hogwarts. Her subject specialized in the different stars and constellations, as well as moons and planets, which is fitting, given that Sinistra is also the name of a star in the constellation of Ophiuchus. We don’t know much else about her, but she must have been a decent teacher since she managed to pass Umbridge’s assessment.

3. Professor Cuthbert Binns

Unlike the other teachers, Professor Binns was a ghost who taught History of Magic. He was an educator while he was alive who continued to teach until he was in his old age. He simply fell asleep in the staff room one day and died in his sleep, but he continued to teach as a ghost. Although he was described as a very boring teacher, the fact that he still taught while he was a ghost – as though nothing had changed – showed true dedication to his subject.

4. Professor Firenze

Firenze was a centaur who used to live in the Forbidden Forest. After Professor Trelawney was fired in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore hired Firenze as her replacement. Unfortunately, the other centaurs saw this as servitude and banished him from the herd. His lessons focused on using the stars to divine the future. Once Trelawney was reinstated, the two of them split the classes. Although we never saw him as a teacher in the films, he did make an appearance in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone when he saved Harry from Professor Quirrell, whom Voldemort possessed in the Forbidden Forest.

5. Professor Grubbly-Plank

Professor Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank was a substitute Care of Magical Creatures teacher who took over the subject when Hagrid was unable to teach in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. She was a very knowledgeable and competent teacher in the subject, and some students preferred her teaching method to Hagrid’s.

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