Question on Teachers - okay Transfiguration teachers in particular

[karenlyall666]

No: HPFGUIDX 69411

Hi Kristini

I'm tending to agree wuth you on this.  I have found the Lexicon an 
absoultely indespensable aid when thinking about these posts, but my 
investigations disagree here too.  I posted on this yesterday but a 
quick run down of 'facts' follows.

1 - AD becomes Head Master, RL et all, go to school (as far as I know 
there is no canon to help with these dates other than after 1942 and 
before 1991)
2 - The Quibbler article on the train in OOP states Fudge became 
minister 5 yrs ago (1990).  I assume this is when AD was offered the 
job as when Hagrid talks about CF 'pelting' AD with owls in PS/SS it 
sounds quite recent.  
3 - it took Mad-eye 6 months to track down Karkaroff, so the earliest 
he could have been on trial is 1982 (I always think it took them 
longer to locate the Longbottoms tormentors, and we don't know when 
Neville had to go live with Grandma, but 1982 is the earliest Crouch 
snr popularity could wane).

That's the three main points that spring to mind, but there may be 
more as my head is so full of timeline stuff as a personal project.

The other thing about AD that confuses me is did he become Head 
Master when Prof McGonagall got the Transfiguration job, as this 
means he was Headmaster before Lupin etc were even born???

Probably hasn't cleared anything up, but at least you know someone 
agrees with you...

karenlyall666

"Kirstini" wrote:
> Diana:>In reference to Dumbledore, this is
> > information they have in the timeline:
> > 1971 - becomes Headmaster (offered position of MoM in 1970 but 
> turns it down)>
>  
> I don't like to question the Lexicon here, but can this be right? 
> Dumbledore was offered the postition of MoM, and Fudge took it when 
> he turned it down. We know this from PS. Fudge wasn't going to get 
> the job - everyone thought it would be Barty Crouch, but he lost 
> public sympathy after his son was caught. But his son was caught in 
> 1983-4 approx, wasn't he? This would mean a discrepancy of 13-odd 
> years in the Lexicon information. Have I got hold of the wrong end 
> of the stick?
> Kirstini