[HPforGrownups] some thoughts on Year 5

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 54239

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Gregory Lynn wrote:

> If we buy the theory that Chamber of Secrets was all about foreshadowing
> and so forth, might it not be possible that Dumbledore's revelation
> about Voldemort got him suspended or actually sacked?  That would leave,
> I presume, either Snape or McGonagall as Headmaster/Headmistress or
> conceivably someone from the outside.  Depending on how far Voldemort
> has infiltrated his little weasels into the Ministry, could he not have
> some influence on the selection?  If we assume for the moment that Fudge
> isn't just a dope, but actually agressively evil, might he not arrange
> to have a Voldemort friendly headmaster?  Someone like a former school
> governor who has been outspoken about the way Dumbledore ran the school?  
> Someone like Lucius Malfoy?


Hogwarts is not a government entity; therefore, it is unlikely that the
Ministry bureaucracy or Fudge in particular has the authority to fire
Dumbledore or select a replacement.  That would be like the muggle Prime
Minister deciding who should be headmaster as Eton.  In CoS when
Dumbledore was suspended as headmaster, it was the school governors who
made the decision, and if he gets fired or suspended again it should still
be their decision, not Fudge's.  Of course, in CoS we saw that the
governors were susceptible to pressure from Malfoy, but they later rallied
and got him kicked off the board and restored Dumbledore to his rightful
position.  Given that history with Malfoy, I think it's unlikely the
governors would select Malfoy as headmaster even if they did decide to
sack Dumbledore for some reason.


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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"