[HPforGrownups] Re: Least Fave Characters

[Deeblite]

No: HPFGUIDX 19581

At 04:28 PM 5/26/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>--- 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.
>
>I wonder, though, if the post of DADA teacher will continue as a
>running gag like _Spinal Tap_ drummers and Number 2 in _The Prisoner_

Number 2 in The Prisoner could hardly be considered a "running gag."   oO

>- it isn't unreasonable that the post actually should be jinxed.
>However, Dumbledore sees the school as the most important thing
>he does, and perhaps we should wonder too whether he's just unlucky
>with the DADA teachers he appoints, or whether he actually doesn't
>want to put someone competent into that job.  Perhaps he distrusts
>the whole subject, as glamourising Dark Arts and encouraging
>original-thinking students to practise Dark Magic themselves?

That doesnt seem to be something Dumbledore would do, to me..
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