Molly and *One* Rock-Solid Prediction

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No: HPFGUIDX 60788

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "thebasketfairy"
> <thebasketfairy at y...> wrote:
> > My rock solid predictions...
> >
> > That Molly Weasley will be the DADA professor. All her children 
are
> > in school now, she is a clever witch, and she is part of the old
> > crowd. I may go as far to say that she will be killed defending
> > Harry and/or other students.
> >
> > Kathleen G.
> 

Doesn't this raise the question of what credentials one needs to be 
hired at Hogwarts?  A friendly letter from Dumbledore with an offer?  
No interview?  No resume?  No day-long prodding from potential 
colleagues to see if you cut the mustard?  Seems a bit of a hit-and-
miss way to go about getting staff.  I know Lockhart was hired 
because he was the only one around willing to take the job, but 
surely Lupin and Moody had something more on their resumes than "I'll 
do it cuz no one else wants to."  I don't say this to disparage 
Molly, but surely one needs to have some expertise in the subject one 
teaches, and there isn't much evidence she's had any practical dark 
arts defending (keeping Fred and George in line and putting up with 
Percy doesn't count!)

D'you think Hogwarts needs to revisit its hiring procedures when it 
comes to the DADA position?  DD's "we do seem to run through them" 
attitude just doesn't seem to cut it anymore.

PS--My guess is it's Arabella Figg--and I pray she sticks around more 
than one year.

Red Inkstone