[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape: What is he up to?

[Barb P]

No: HPFGUIDX 44060


erisedstraeh2002 wrote: 
 I'm not convinced of Dumbledore's perceptivity.  He's been a poor judge of character before (e.g., Quirrell, Lockhart).

~Phyllis
 
What you see as a poor judge of character  I see as a headmaster who wants his students to learn more than what's in the books they're reading.  Lockhart is an excellent example.  Any student worth his or her salt will see through Lockhart's bluster and bravado.  I believe Dumbledore WANTED this to be the case.  Teaching the students to perceive a fraud is not something you can do by rote; they need to see an example in the flesh.  I think Dumbledore knew EXACTLY what Lockhart was.  At the end of CoS, there is every indication that Dumbledore knew Lockhart was full of it.  He hired him to teach a different kind of lesson to the students, IMO, and sadly, Percy Weasley did not learn it.  (He was in sixth year, and preoccupied with snogging his girlfriend.  Perhaps if he'd learned the Lockhart Lesson he would have spotted what was going on with his boss in GoF.)
 
As for Quirrell, he was teaching at Hogwarts for years with no problem.  During his time off, he encountered Voldemort, who then possessed him.  Dumbledore likely had no reason to think Quirrell was changed when he returned, turban or no turban.  These are not what I'd call examples of being a poor judge of character.  Dumbledore is very shrewd.  He picked up on the Moody/Crouch thing from ONE clue: the fact that the real Moody wouldn't have removed Harry after he returned from the graveyard.  That was enough for Dumbledore to know that Harry was in danger, and to enlist Snape and McGonagall for backup.  'Nuff said.  
 
--Barb
(Who's feeling a bit like Hagrid, defending Professor Dumbledore, sir...::tugs on forelock::)
 


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