DADA

[Rach]

No: HPFGUIDX 68955

A.G. wrote: 
>>> "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.>>>

Was Educational Decree number (whatever it was) in force when 
Lockhart was appointed? When I read that section I got the impression 
that it was a new decree - probably drafted with the sole purpose of 
allowing Fudge to station Umbridge and other MoM sympathisers into 
the school.

rach