[HPforGrownups] Re: Charlie Weasley, Professor of COMC?

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 57665

Ersatz Harry wrote:

> I don't recall any mention of the COMC position even existing until
> Hagrid was appointed to fill it, and so I was left with the impression
> that the position was created both to fill a need and to give Hagrid a
> more respectable job.  Yet it seems to have been a required course
> rather than an elective; hard to imagine Draco Malfoy taking an
> elective course with "that oaf".  Are there other references to the
> position itself that might help me figure this out?  If Hagrid were
> indeed offed in OoP, would there be a need to fill the position?
>
There was not a murmur in the Great Hall when Dumbledore announced that the
previous COMC professor, Kettleburn, had retired to spend time with his
remaining limbs.  This implies to me that this class has been around for
awhile.  When Draco (and everyone else) signed up for this class, they had
no clue it would be with Hagrid.  As for why Draco continued to take the
class the following year, maybe he thought it'd be fun to see if there would
be another way for him to get Hagrid sacked.  And he doesn't have to work as
hard in this class like he might in something like Arithmancy (of course, he
could be taking that class instead of Divination).

Kelly Grosskreutz
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