[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore, Snap and Fudge

[Scott Northrup]

No: HPFGUIDX 50389

Tom:
> "How is it that every DADA teacher for the last four years has been
> of questionable character? Did you know that Quirrell was a supporter
> of You-Know-Who? That Lockhart couldn't even cast a spell to stop
> pixies? Remus Lupin? Yeah, he was a WEREWOLF that almost attacked a
> student AND a teacher! And who would have though we'd hear from Barty
> Crouch, Jr. again? Wasn't he in Azkaban? No? He impersonated Mad-Eye
> Moody for a whole year? Hey wait... weren't Moody and Dumbledore good
> friends?  How'd Dumbledore fall for it?
>
> Maybe one mistake, maybe two in hiring teachers, after all, no one's
> perfect. But FOUR loons hired at the school in four years? Our kids
> are supposed to be SAFE at Hogwarts, not in the company of You-Know-
> Who's supporters and other crazies.
>
> And what about The Triwizard Tournament? Oh, what a disgrace to the
> Ministry.  Barty Crouch, Sr.: dead, ON the Hogwarts grounds. Barty
> Crouch, Jr.: dead, but hey, he was supposed to be in Azkaban anyways.
> This kid was able to infiltrate Hogwarts, was able to masquerade as a
> teacher and as an auror, was able to trick the Goblet of Fire into
> accepting two champions from Hogwarts, and was able to turn the
> Triwizard Cup into a Portkey?  A student DIED because of all of
> this?
>
> Now we look like fools in front of the whole wizarding world.
>
> And speaking of You-Know-Who, where does this Dumbledore get off,
> scaring my kids with his stories of You-Know-Who's return?  Hogwash.
> There's no proof of that at all.  Says who, anyways?  Who, Harry
> Potter?!  Give me a break: we can't be expected to believe him - he's
> out of his mind! Haven't you been reading the Daily Prophet?  Poor
> kid. Too much trauma, manipulative girlfriends, all that. Tough luck.
> Now my kid is having nightmares about Death Eaters.
>
> And anyways, look at the facts: all Harry Potter is doing is re-
> accusing a bunch of ex-Death Eaters who were exonerated years ago.
> So he can read his History of Magic testbook! So what! Leave them
> alone. After all, Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy are upstanding members
> of our community.  They make large donations to St. Mungo's.
>
> I even heard that Dumbledore threatened the Minister of Magic himself
> after the whole debacle.  Can you believe it?
>
> And that Harry Potter?  My kids say that Dumbledore openly favors
> him, even though he's as much of a rule breaker as his father.  Let
> the kid play for the Quidditch team as a first year! Yep. Helped them
> to win the House Cup repeatedly, with "special" headmaster points
> awarded after the whole competition was supposed to be done and over
> with.  And you know that scar?  Dumbledore KNEW the whole time that
> his scar hurts him, poor kid: he's got delusions of You-Know-Who all
> over the place, he's even had several fits in class.  This could be a
> safety issue.  A health issue.
>
> All under Dumbledore's watch? HE'S supposed to be the great
> headmaster?
>
> And now, now he wants us to talk to those violent giants?  Isn't it
> bad enough that he's got one on the Hogwarts staff?
>
> He wants to get RID of the dementors?  Who's going to secure
> Azkaban?  Who's going to keep us safe?
>
> He's been cavorting with that crazy Arabella Figg, with that senile
> old Mundungus Fletcher from the Ministry... didn't that Fletcher even
> try to scam the Ministry for some lost tent that he never had?
>
> And STILL Dumbledore's got dealings with the werewolf?
>
> I tell you, the man is losing it in his old age. I thought I'd seen
> it all.  Sure, it's a shame.  He was a great wizard in his day.
> Defeated that Grindelwald. Ahh, too bad... everything wanes at some
> point.
>
> All we'd need now is something to break the camel's back.  Could you
> imagine if it turned out that he's been in close contact with the
> notorius Sirius Black, an escapee from Azkaban.  Or maybe that he
> helped a violent, student-attacking hippogriff to ESCAPE?
>
> You know what?  Maybe we shouldn't have placed so much trust in him.
> Maybe we need to get some new management at the school.  I'm not sure
> that my kids are safe there anymore.  Maybe we should contact some of
> the governors on the board and have them take action..."

Wow, that was great!  I have a question though- how many people actually
know that Lockhart was a complete moron?  Besides anyone who's ever met him,
I mean.  The general wizarding public has no idea he's a liar and a fake, at
least not from what I've read in the canon.  And as for Crouch Jr. escaping
Azkaban and masquerading as Moody, well, as far as we know, the only person
who knows about it outside of the regulars is Fudge- and we know Rita
Skeeter won't be writing articles any time soon.   Dumbledore could probably
be forgiven for Quirrel- I was always under the impression that he had been
working at Hogwarts for at LEAST a year before SS/PS,   so I don't think he
was evil when he was hired.

-Scott