[HPforGrownups] Re: DADA

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 68663

In a message dated 7/8/2003 5:25:27 PM Central Standard Time, 
rarpsl at optonline.net writes:

> I agree that Lockhart turned out (in retrospect) to be a bad choice 
> (IOW: He was incompetent) but the question is "Did Dumbledore know he 
> was a fraud?" BEFORE offering him the position?
> 

OhI think he probably did.  He made a comment to Lickhart at the end of COS ( 
after the boys explained about the backfired memory charm) about him being 
hoisted on his own petard. That indicates, to me at least. That Dumbledore knew 
something about the "lay of the land" from the beginning


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