Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.

* In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter, still alive, was seen walking through Limbo with Professor Albus Dumbledore, who was dead at the time.

* In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the mandrake root is cultivated by Professor Sprout to cure the petrification of several characters who had looked indirectly into the eyes of the Basilisk ; the author makes use of the legend of the mandrake's scream ( see above ), and anyone tending mandrakes wears earmuffs to dull the sound of the scream, if the plant must be transplanted.

In his book, Gender and Judaism: The Transformation of Tradition, Harry Brod, a Professor of Philosophy and Humanities in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Northern Iowa, writes:

In the sciences Sussex counts among its past and present faculty five Nobel Prize winners: Sir Anthony Leggett, Sir Paul Nurse, Archer Martin, Sir John Cornforth and Professor Harry Kroto.

* Remus Lupin, a werewolf in the Harry Potter series, a Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts in Harry's 3rd Year, and a member of the Order of the Phoenix, is named after one of the brothers ( in addition, his last name is based on the Latin word for " wolf ").

Non-comic book supervillains of note include Ernst Stavro Blofeld from the James Bond series, Darth Vader and the Emperor from the Star Wars series, The Master from DoctorWho, Voldemort from Harry Potter, Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes series, and Frieza from the Dragonball series.

* 1979-1982: Professor Harry van den Kroonenberg

* 1985-1988: Professor Harry van den Kroonenberg ( Second term )

* Harry Burns Hutchins, President of the University of Michigan from 1910 to 1920, Professor of Law and Dean of the University of Michigan Law School, organizer of the Cornell University Law School, Director of Owosso Public Schools during 1871 and 1872.

As he was returning home from the skirmish, he decided to reveal his secret identity to her, only to find that she had left a note on her phone saying that she was staying the night with her date, Professor Miles Warren, Harry Osborn's hypnotist / therapist ( on Earth-616, Warren is the Jackal ).

Harry wakes up horrified, and Professor McGonagall takes him to Dumbledore immediately.

Afterwards, Dumbledore demands that Harry take Occlumency lessons with Professor Snape, for the purpose of protecting his mind against further invasions by Lord Voldemort.

A highly respected theatre actor, Gambon is recognised for his roles as Philip Marlow in the BBC television serial The Singing Detective, as Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret, and as Professor Albus Dumbledore in the last six Harry Potter films ( following the death of actor Richard Harris ).

His son-in-law, Rabbi Professor Isadore Twersky was an internationally renowned expert on the writings of Maimonides and succeeded Professor Harry Austryn Wolfson to the Nathan Littauer chair of Jewish History and Literature at Harvard University.

He served as Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTSA ) for over 40 years, and for many years was head of the Harry Fischel Institute in Israel and also president of the American Academy for Jewish Research.

* In the Harry Potter series, Professor Tofty, a wizard who works as an Examiner for the Wizarding Examinations Authority, wears them in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Harry faints and is revived by Professor Lupin, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.

During a Hogwarts visit to Hogsmeade, a wizard village which Harry is unable to visit because he has no permission slip, Harry has tea with Professor Lupin.

After Bobby turns him down, the two mutants get into a short battle, which is soon ended by Professor Charles Xavier.

The diploma would allow him to teach, and soon he took a position as the assistant to Professor Gips, the Professor of Drawing and Art History, for the small monthly salary of 75 guldens.

From the Zittau gymnasium, where he spent the five years 1821-1826, Haupt moved to the University of Leipzig intending to study theology ; but his own inclinatinos and the influence of Professor Gottfried Hermann soon turned him in the direction of classical philology.

Bryce went to the bar and practised in London for a few years, but he was soon called back to Oxford as Regius Professor of Civil Law, a position he held between 1870 and 1893.

This was soon followed by MIT Professor Mark Drela's XFOIL code.

Yet, as soon as they return, they face a group of impostors following Cerebro, in the guise of Professor X.

Havok and Wolfsbane however were soon brought back from Genosha by Professor X and Cyclops as they wanted him to became the leader of the new government-sponsored X-Factor.

After the re-foundation in 1946 and under the leadership of Professor Gerhard Wilhelm, who conducted the choir until 1987, the Hymnus Boys ' Choir soon reached an artistic level, that was recognized far beyond the country borders.

Although he began university study with an interest in becoming an engineer, he soon developed an interest in research under the influence of Professor Gilbert N. Lewis.

Afterwards, he became "( Ober -) Studienrat im Hochschuldienst " ( Lecturer and Senior Lecturer or Assistant Professor, but with tenure ; also see Beamter ) at the University of Giessen's Political Science Department, but he remained active in Marburg municipal and Hesse politics as a social democrat, where he soon held key positions in the City Parliament.

They soon discover that Professor Moriarty is responsible, but are shocked when they learn that Moriarty is aware of the Holodeck being a simulation.

After graduating he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado but soon moved back to Michigan as an instructor in astronomy.

In 1937, Pound resigned as Dean of Harvard Law School to become a University Professor and soon became a leading critic of the legal realists.

This seated statue, good as it is, was soon surpassed by those of Dr Dale ( 1898, in the city museum, Birmingham ) and Professor Huxley ( 1900 ), but the colossal memorial statue of Queen Victoria ( 1901 ), for Manchester, was less successful.

But it soon becomes apparent that she has made powerful enemies: Renie is dismissed from her job, the apartment complex where she and her unemployed father Long Joseph live is burned down, and Professor van Bleeck is murdered.

Jeff Cummings, an Air Force major, soon becomes suspicious of Professor Walgate, a British scientist living near the airbase, who has been experimenting with telekinetics ; Walgate, it is soon revealed, has succeeded in developing telekinesis.

He discontinued his law practice soon after, devoted himself to the study of law as a science, and became Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of London ( now University College London ) 1826-32.

Though at first anonymous, its authorship soon became known, with the result that Keble was in 1831 appointed Oxford Professor of Poetry, a post that he held until 1841.

He began studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon obtained a scholarship to the Music Conservatory in Warsaw, where he finished in 1925, having studied composition with Professor Roman Statkowski and Emil Młynarski.

And for me this had a reassuring outcome, for most of his more ardent supporters were soon beginning to sell out their shares in Professor Tolkien, and today those books have passed into a merciful oblivion.

Half way through the end credits, there is a sequence shown where two of Paula's college mates are discussing how Hein was brilliant in his work in dissection and preservation, how Professor Grombak is going to be substituted soon, and how in their respective practices they will keep a low profile while experimenting for the Anti-Hippocratic Society.

According to Professor Appel, " if female babies worth their weight in rupees and yuan, economic and educational opportunities for girls would soon follow.