DADA

[Susan Smith]

No: HPFGUIDX 68953

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Angela Hanson" 
<pandora_13 at m...> wrote:
Lana Lovegood:
<SNIP> 
-And, speaking of Dumbledore, I can't believe that he didn't see 
through Lockhart immediately....after all, he was right on target 
about Sybill Trelawney, wasn't he?  And Lockhart was an even bigger 
phony! 
> 
<Angela H> wrote:  <SNIP>, <SNIP>

But I do have something that, I believe, shows DD new Lockhart was a 
fraud at the very least.which begs the question "Why did DD hire 
Lockhart???"...<SNIP>

"Dear me," said Dumbledore, shaking his head, his long silver 
mustache quivering. "Impaled upon your own sword, Gilderoy!"
This suggests to me that DD knew Lockhart was using memory charms to 
take credit for all those things he wrote about in his book, not to 
mention the disdainful way the other teachers treat him, almost 
mocking him.

<Atropos G.>

"Why did DD hire Lockhart???"...

Well now-he really did not have much choice or as Hagrid put it so 
eloquently in COS (Am version, pg 115) "He was the on'y man for the 
job," "An' I mean the on'y one. Gettin' very difficult ter find 
anyone fer the Dark Arts job...They're startin' to think it's jinxed."

Plus, as we now know from OOP if DD had not hired Lockhart who seemed 
willing and eager to take the job, then the MoM would have stepped in 
and appointed a DADA instructor even earlier (since they are able to 
when DD cannot fill a Hogwarts position.

Too, I like to think that there was a nobler cause behind Dd hiring 
him-it took the menace off the street and protected many in the WW 
from having Lockhart seize their accomplishments and prevented him 
from further performing his memory charms. (I know, to buy that wild 
theoryyou really have to believe that Albus DD is omniscient).

A.G.