DADA instructors & Karkaroff

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 43765

Tamee asked (about young DADA instructors):

> Why aren't there any seasoned DADA teachers?  Were most who could 
>have taught killed or driven mad during the war with Voldemort?  


Jodel responded:

> I suspect that we may be seeing a bias in action here. It may be 
>difficult to find DADA instructors who are not also Dark wizards. 

You can say that again, Jodel!  ;-)

See, I've also been wondering if Dumbledore has had a problem that 
his past DADA teachers taught a while and then figured the better 
opportunities were on Voldemort's team.

Why?  Well, I think Karkaroff used to be a DADA teacher for 
Dumbledore before he joined up with Voldemort.  He certainly seems 
to have some prior connection to Hogwars.  Look at Karkaroff's warm 
greeting for Dumbledore upon his arrival at Hogwarts:

"Dumbledore!" he called heartily as he walked up the slope.  "How 
are you, my dear fellow, how are you?". . . 

"Dear old Hogwarts,"  [Karkaroff] said, looking up at the castle and 
smiling. . . "How good it is to be here, how good . . . "

Sounds to me like a former colleague returning to the place where he 
taught.  Also, if Karkaroff is headmaster at Durmstrang, isn't it 
likely he obtained some teaching experience somewhere?  

Not only that, Dumbledore seems somewhat sympathetic to Karkaroff in 
the Pensieve scene.  As Mad-Eye voices his anger toward Karkaroff, 
Dumbledore seems much more kind, disagreeing that the Ministry 
should hear Karkaroff's information and send him back to the 
dementors.  

It makes me wonder what other DEs might have been Hogwarts DADA 
teachers.  Hmmm.  ;-)

Cindy -- who has to wonder if Snape wants the DADA job because Snape 
used to have that position before Snape went Bad