Dumbledore and Lockhart

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No: HPFGUIDX 16232

Yes, I know it is Ron Week,but..

There has been a lot of discussion on why Dumbledore has made Lockhart 
DADA Teacher in CoS.
I think Dumbledore knows Lockhart is fake from the beginning ( "Hit by 
your own sword, Guilderoy?" (or similiar). So he hired 
Lockhart,knowing  Lockhart would not really have much to teach to the 
pupils, except..
Even Dumbledore could not know he would need a "real"DADA- Wizard. So 
he might have thought it would not be such a bad Idea to let the 
children find out by themselves, that "not everthing that glows is 
gold". As Hagrid said, he didn't have much of a choice, but I believe 
that is mainly what  he thought the children could learn from 
Lockhart, apart from book- information. BTW even if all those things 
were not performed by Lockhart himself, they WERE performed, so what 
they learned was not completly wrong, was it?

IMVHO, this is what JKR wanted to say:
I believe, Lockhart and Lupin belong *together* to show the Hogwarts 
pupils, and the Readers, "Don't judge a book by its cover ". :)
Lockhart seems all "shiny". His appearance and his books tell 
everybody what a great Teacher he would be . Lupin in comparison is 
ragged and does not want attention. He "seems" to not have much to 
say. After those two years however, we know it is the other way 
around. Lupin really has informatio to give, AND knows how to give it 
too, and Lockhart is just a neat poster.