The real worst teacher at Hogwarts

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 56932

It's not Hagrid. It's not Snape. 

Now that Lockhart is gone, the real worst teacher at Hogwarts is 
Trelawney!

Here are her sins.

1) Completely unprofessional to tell a student at the beginning of 
each school year that he or she will die. Unprofessional for two 
reasons. One, duh, it's a horrible thing to say to a young person. 
Two, unless someone ACTUALLY dies, you basically show that you're a 
fraud, every year.

2) For all of the griping - actually it's from ONE person :P - about 
Hagrid's closeness to the Trio, Trelawney has developed similar 
relationships with Lavender and Parvati. 

3) You think Snape was mean to Hermione? (Well, yeah, he was, the 
slimy git) Trelawney's response to having her predictions challenged 
is to tell Hermione "I don't think you have the gift."

That's equivalent to a language teacher who has been caught not 
knowing what he or she is talking about saying "well, you don't have 
the aptitude for language."

Complete B.S. 

My theory is that Snape, on some level, fears Hermione, or at least 
is a little wary. Not physically, but fears that she will surpass 
whatever his accomplishments at Hogwarts. She solved his logic puzzle 
easily, when it was meant to be a defense against Lord Voldemort! 
Sheesh, how embarassing. She KNEW about werewolves, indicating that 
she's willing and able to read ahead AND understand lessons, kinda 
like he was.

I think THAT'S why he takes every opportunity to slap her down, not 
because he wants her to come back stronger, but because he wants her 
to stay down. 

Trelawney isn't even smart enough to be wary of Hermione.

This all leads to another question.

Hogwarts is THE school in Britain, and on par with the best schools 
in Europe. Why the hell can't they attract a better quality of 
teacher?

Even overburdened American public schools could do better than an 
obviously mentally-damaged Quirrell, an obviously incompetent 
Lockhart, an in-over-his-head (AT TIMES, JENNY!) Hagrid, and a 
ridiculous fraud like Trelawney.

Yeah, yeah, it's not a real school. But still, one would think 
professors would fight to teach at Hogwarts. Instead, Dumbledore 
seems to be left with the dregs.

Darrin
- You know, how did Quirrell get through the logic puzzle? And the 
chess set, for that matter!