Dumbledore and Teaching

[Rosmerta]

No: HPFGUIDX 21282

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Ebony Elizabeth Thomas" <ebonyink at h...> 
wrote:
> >--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Rosmerta" <tmayor at m...> wrote:
> >if he *is* the most powerful wizard we
> > > see in the books, what's he doing running a boarding school-->
> 
> Jenny wrote:
> 
> >See, now, this bothers me a bit.  I think Dumbledore is in the best
> >place possible.  

and Ebony wrote: Because of our perception that teachers are all 
talentless lugs, unfit to do 
> anything beside be overpriced babysitters...etc. etc.

Now I'm writing: Uh, guys, I'm feeling a little misquoted here! My 
point was not that Dumbledore is wasting his time at Hogwarts, but 
rather the reverse (as the rest of my original post indicated): he's 
obviously there for a much larger purpose than ushering teenaged 
wizards through their OWLs on the way to some dead-end MOM job. 
Therefore, he sees the education of his students as central to the 
fight against Voldemort, to which he has dedicated his life, and so 
on and so on. At which point you can then logically insert all the 
wonderful things Jenny and Ebony said about education and teachers. 

~Rosmerta
who's all for <snip>ing, done with care of course