Theory on the DADA-post's jinx

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 85397

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
 <snipping>
> I suspect that once Harry is gone from the school, the 'magnet' 
that
> has been drawing bad luck to the job will be gone too. However, I 
must
> amend that by pointing out that with the exception of Lupin, all 
the
> DADA teachers were either incompetent or their integrity was 
seriously
> compromised. Either way, they were corrupted in ways that almost
> guaranteed their doom. 
>

Jen R: You know, I think even Lupin was undone in the end by his own 
weakness--cowardice, as he himself says in POA . He didn't want to 
risk Dumbledore's trust by telling him about the illegal animagi and 
the secret tunnels; those omissions led to the finale in the 
Shrieking Shack and ultimately, Lupin's fate. I don't see it as 
corruption so much as a character flaw, though. (And I'm still not 
convinved Quirrell's conversion was completely his doing--LV seems 
to be very *convincing* when needed....). But you get no argument 
from me on Crouch!Moody, Lockhart and Umbridge being deeply corrupt 
to begin with.