Dumbledore and Lockhart

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 16265

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Rachel Bray" <bray.262 at o...> wrote:
> We discussed this in my class when we read CoS.  Someone 
> asked why Dumbledore had hired Lockhart in the first place and 
> then not fire him when it was obvious that he wasn't teaching 
> anything substantial to the children (he had not read any of the 
> other books, as we were required to read only CoS, but it was his 
> guess that other teachers had/will taught/teach useful stuff).
> 
> We drew the conclusion that this was just to teach us, again, to 
> never judge someone by their appearance only.
> 
> But then we got into an argument about how Dumbledore "wasted" 
> a whole year of the children's DADA training just to teach them 
this 
> lesson.
> 
> It was an ugly class that day, my friends.  :-)

It could be rebutted that it wasn't a waste of time:

Hermione probably read every Lockhart book cover to cover, as did any 
other girl of the same year who had a crush on Gilderoy.

The whole class did learn _something_ : i.e. "don't set loose a bunch 
of pixies."

Ron and Harry saw through Lockhart's charade; and they're the only 
two who we know did.  It's possible other kids did and sought out 
learning elsewhere...either in the library, or through doing 
something constructive in DADA class, or cutting it entirely and 
boning up on another subject.

Indigo
[who is desperately distracting herself from a herniated disk and the 
unspeakable pain thereof.  Where's Madame Pomfrey when you really 
need her?!]