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

[Tom Wall <thomasmwall@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51156


GREY WOLF WRITES:
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.

SNAPESANGEL WRITES:
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.

I REPLY:
I agree that Dumbledore wasn't thorough enough. I often thought to 
myself that, with one requested charm Dumbledore could have 
disqualified Lockhart - provided it wasn't a memory charm.

And there was a better choice - Dumbledore himself. When I was in 
school, the Headmaster had to fill in for teachers more than once 
because there was no substitute available.

And even if it taxed Dumbledore's time a little, it would have been a 
better choice than having that idiot teaching such an important 
class - for all intents and purposes that ENTIRE year of DADA was 
wasted.

-Tom