Snape & DADA, Astronomy, Quirrell and the Sight

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 32987

At 2:55 PM +0000 1/7/02, finwitch wrote:
>
>This WOULD piss Snape off - DADA is important, and Dumbledore
>choosing an incompetent teacher instead of him who at least would
>know what he's talking about...

Quirrell we simply don't know about (although he as much as admits 
that fainting about the troll was a ruse, and Snape knew it), but if 
Hagrid is correct in CoS, Lockhart was the only applicant for the job 
the second year.  If Snape wanted it, he didn't throw his hat in the 
ring for some reason.


At 8:55 AM -0800 1/7/02, Ronald Rae Yu wrote:
>Is their Astronomy subject with Sinistra really
>Astronomy? They would be having a non-magical course
>then (interesting for me).

Not necessarily.  If Amulets and Talismans are part of the curriculum 
later on, many traditional talismans need to be constructed or 
charmed when a specific planet or star is directly overhead, the 
phases of the moon are important for Care of Magical Creatures (and 
perhaps Herbology?), and of course the background is useful in 
Divination.  It's an all-around handy thing to know for a young 
wizard or witch.  (I doubt they delve much into astrophysics.)


At 10:52 AM -0500 1/7/02, IAmLordCassandra at aol.com wrote:
>This got me thinking. I assume that Dumbledore knew what each of the teachers
>did to help protect the stone. If this was the case, wouldn't he've been
>suspicious of Quirrell when he freaked out over a Troll that was actually
>smaller than the one he was able to control and put in the chamber?

Snape certainly was, and Dumbledore hadn't seen the troll in question 
yet.  I do imagine Dumbledore was suspicious - why else would he let 
Snape wander off by himself like that?

At 3:34 AM +0000 1/8/02, elfundeb wrote:
>If I'm correct about what Cindy's referring to, Trelawney didn't
>predict Harry's Triwizard winnings -- Ron did.  ("A windfall,
>unexpected gold.") He gets so little credit for his academics, but he
>got just past that point of the tea leaf reading when Trelawney took
>over and started turning the reading into a portent of death.

Harry and Ron seem to have a better track record for correct 
predictions than Trelawney does.  Harry certainly has better Sight, 
if his dreams are any indication.  And I've wondered why Ron was made 
a sixth son - and why there's that gap between Charlie and Percy. 
(If that gap is by Mr. and Mrs Weasley's choice, they decided to 
start having kids hand over fist again just as the darkest part of 
the Voldemort years settled in, and stopped right when V. lost his 
powers.  The only explanation I can come up with for _that_ is that 
they figured it was their duty to repopulate the wizarding world all 
by themselves - if it were just that Molly wanted a girl, they 
wouldn't have that gap . . .)

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