DADA instructors & Karkaroff

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 43780

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
 
> 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?>

Sorry to snip so much here, but I wanted to get in all of Cindy's 
comments.  I like the thought that Karkaroff was once a teacher at 
Hogwarts, but did you really believe he was serious when he greeted 
Dumbledore "warmly"?  Or that he was happy to return to "Dear old 
Hogwarts"?  I only ask this because I got the feeling right away that 
Karkaroff was less than pleased to be on the grounds of Hogwarts.  
Either way, it fits with your theory, Cindy, because Karkaroff may 
have been asked to leave Hogwarts or may have chosen to leave to 
pursue his DE studies more privately.  Karkaroff seems to have a habit 
of running for the hills when things get hot.

--jenny from ravenclaw, who will be surprised if Karkaroff is not the 
coward referred to by Voldemort because no one seems a coward more 
than he ***********************************************