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

[lindseyharrisst <lindseyharrisst@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51146

 Greywolf On Lockhart:
> The fact is that, until that point, he might not have looked like the 
> most brilliant DADA teacher imaginable, but certainly he was good 
> enough, especially when no other choices were available.

He was not good enough! He was a disaster and would have been
dangerous had he done any proper teaching after the first "practical
lesson" incident. There seemed to be no checking of CVs either. I
would expect anyone to go through rigrous checks about previous
achievements etc. Hiring him was a professional eror on Dumbleodr's
part -  not because he's meant to be omnipotent but because he was
ineffectual in his coss examination and testing of the candidate. A
practical demonstration of spells, for example, would in all liklihood
have flawed Lockhart (unless it was a memory charm, which he says he's
good at, but that is unlikely in a DADA post interview, I'd have thought.
I know I'm being quite hypothetical, but so are you!
Sanpesangel