[HPforGrownups] Karkaroff as new DADA teacher

[Barb]

No: HPFGUIDX 49556


 
 "kitteebuddz <kitteebuddz at yahoo.ca>" <kitteebuddz at yahoo.ca> wrote:
1)"Snape had disliked all of (the) previous Dark Art teachers, and shown it" (GoF, UK/Canadian Hardcover, 2000, p.185).   [snip]
2)Sirius says about Karkaroff that "from what I can tell, he's been teaching the Dark Arts to every student who passes through that school of his" (GoF, UK/Canadian Hardcover, 2000, p.291).  What better professor for the Defence Against Dark Arts than one who has actually *taught* the Dark Arts?  

[snip]

I believe that Voldemort is referring to Karkaroff when he's talking about the missing DEs and says "one, too cowardly to return...he will pay" (GoF, UK/Canadian Hardcover, 2000, p.565).

3)By the end of GoF, Karkaroff is on the run, and "fears the Dark Lord's vengeance" (GoF, UK/Canadian Hardcover, 2000, p.616).  There is clearly no better place for him to hide out than Hogwarts, as DD is headmaster, and (as everybody knows) Dumbledore is the only wizard that has given Voldemort a run for his money.  

The only flaw that I can see in this theory is a snippet contributed by bboy_mn:
> "But JKR implied, maybe even said, it was going to be a woman." (refering to the new DADA teacher)


Me:

While the snippet about the DADA teacher being a woman does seem to put the kibbosh on any male teacher,  remember that JKR was also going to have a Weasley cousin in GoF who never materialized and sort of morphed into Rita Skeeter. ;)  

 

As for your other arguments, the only problem I can see is that while Snape clearly understands that it is safe for him at Hogwarts, if Karkaroff thought that he wouldn't have fled.  From Hogwarts.  From what would arguably be a place of complete safety for him.  And it's a familiar place to him, as well; when he arrives and calls it "dear old Hogwarts," it seems possible that he was a student there, and possibly fled to Eastern Europe after Voldemort fell, eventually advancing to the headmaster position at Durmstrang.  (His dialogue doesn't have an accent when he speaks English, like Krum and the student who asks for wine but doesn't get it).  

 

I don't expect Karkaroff to last very long into the fifth book, somehow (and no, I don't think he's the death that would be hard to write).  Karkaroff would be a perfect example for Voldemort to use to show his followers what will happen to them if they don't give him complete allegiance.  As for the DADA teacher, I suspect instead that it will be someone we haven't met yet, but may possibly be someone of whom we've heard.  (Figg or perhaps Fletcher, if the female-DADA thing doesn't happen.) I think that Karkaroff isn't trusting enough to believe Dumbledore if he offers him sanctuary, and I also don't think Dumbledore would trust Karkaroff to teach DADA, even if he offered him shelter.  (He's not going to be as cavalier about this post now that Voldemort is back, I believe.)  It just doesn't feel like a good fit. I think Karkaroff is going to try to get as far away as possible from Britain as soon as he can.  Whether he will succeed in escaping Voldemort and the Death Eaters remains to be seen...

 

--Barb

 


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