Least Fave Characters

[rja.carnegie at excite.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19545

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> >> Lockheart: I had a hard time understanding why Dumbledore would
> >> hire him except for comic relief or to give Snape some dueling
> >> practice.
> > 
> > I don't know if you meant to suggest that Dumbledore as head
> > teacher
> > thinks the school day needs comic relief and appointed Lockhart for
> > that reason, but I like the idea.
> 
> Actually, I meant that JKR created his character for comic relief in
> the novel.  Dumbledore's ideas of comic relief are a mystery so far.

Well, there's the school song.  And socks.

The sock thing.  Is Dumbledore perhaps a rather large house elf?

Robert Carnegie
Glasgow, Scotland

"I read them all when I was seven and I hated them" - unnamed American
office worker on the Harry Potter books (www.dilbert.com, List of
Stupid Things Overheard)