OOP-Spoiler: Poisoned Honey?

[maria_kirilenko]

No: HPFGUIDX 55214

Sacrebleu! I just erased my reply, so this is obviously going to be 
shorter and less eloquent than I expected it to be.

I wrote:
Uh, but why would Dumbledore hire Narcissa *Malfoy*? You yourself say
> that 
> Narcissa might have turned dark - then there is absolutely no 
reason for
> Dumbledore to hire her at all.

To which Pepsiboy replied: 
> Maybe Dumbledore has no choice?  There are times where Lucius has 
managed to
> push things on Hogwarts before (ex. Dumbledore removed as 
headmaster, Hagrid
> sent to Azkaban, and to a lesser degree Draco as Keeper) through his
> 'influence' on the Board of Governors.  From what I gather, the 
rest of the
> WW still considers him a an upstanding citizen (Fudge, anyone?), so 
maybe
> he'll go to Fudge and reason that since Hogwarts has had problems 
with
> keeping DADA teachers, to give Narcissa a try.

OK, Lucius goes for subtle. He *does not* go and make Dumbledore hire 
his ever-so-evil wife to be a professor at Hogwarts and spy there, 
and expect to get anything accomplished. He'd be able to gather more 
information using Draco, which I fully expect him to do (or at least 
give it a shot). IMO, there absolutely must be student spies at 
Hogwarts. It's the headquarters of Dumbledore, for crying out loud! 
And some people are saying that Voldemort didn't recruit 
schoolchildren.

I personally would love to learn more about Narcissa, but I honestly 
can't see the scenario you suggest as a plausible one. As a matter of 
fact, I don't see any women we've met so far as fitting the bill, 
with the possible exception of Olympe Maxime, who has her own school 
to tend to.

Maria, who would like to meet a female classmate of MWPP... they 
can't *all* be dead, right?

P.S. If anyone could kindly point me to an extensive post of 
Sociopath!Sirius, I would be eternally grateful.