Dumbledore's employment policy (WAS: Characters You Hate)

[lindseyharrisst <lindseyharrisst@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51139

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Grey Wolf <greywolf1 at j...>"
<greywolf1 at j...> wrote:

> That is a very bad example of a bad decision of Dumbledore. What do you 
> think "no other applicant" means? If there was no one else to choose 
> from, there is no one else to choose from, and that's it. 

Me: I think you rather have the idea that Dumbledore is omnipotent.
This is clearly not true. He makes mistakes, or fails to act, in
several situations(or so we can infer, since bad things have happened
during his tenure as a teacher and then as Headmaster.)He failed to
prevent his pupils who were "borderline" from becoming death eaters
and failed to stop Voldemort when he was still Tom Riddle. Recently he
did n't see through Crouch/ Moody until the very end of gof. 
No other applicant just means that no one responded to the
advertisment and made an offer to teach as a result of it, it does not
mean no one could have been promoted internally or done cover lessons
if they had been asked, given more incentives or had the gravity of
the situation furhter impressed upon them. Many teachers I have known
have filled in classes for absent collegues or a teacher who qualified
to teach French but also speaks German has taken classes in the latter
(with the syllabus to hand). 

No offence Greywolf, but I felt I had to defend myself and my choice
of character. No disrespect, though I knew this would happen, hence
the donning of my armour as I type!
lol
Snapesangel