Theory on the DADA-post's jinx

[Florentine Maier]

No: HPFGUIDX 85412

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...>
wrote:
> "Florentine Maier" wrote:
> I presume that it's not just a rumor but that the post is actually 
> jinxed. I think the jinx could go something like that: "Everybody who
> takes the job of DADA-teacher will come to grief because of his/her 
> greatest weakness within a year."
> 
> Cases in point:
[snip]
> Moody: Paranoia
[snip]
> 
> Carol: 
> Interesting theory. Only one nitpick: The real Moody didn't lose the
> post because of paranoia. His paranoia was fully justified. He didn't
> teach because he was in a trunk under an Imperius curse, and strictly
> speaking, he didn't lose the post (though he didn't take it the
> following year, either). Imposter!Moody, OTOH, never intended to take
> the post for more than a year and said so at the welcoming feast in
> OoP, but he didn't expect to end his term as teacher quite the way he
> did. His greatest weakness would not be paranoia but--hm--Deception?
> Malice? Vengeance? Just being a murderous, conniving Death Eater? At
> any rate, he was altogether evil and even though he wasn't able to
> testify that Voldemort had returned, no one except possibly Voldemort
> is sorry that he's gone. Anyway, Wrong Moody, wrong weakness, but no
> effect on your theory over all.
[snip]

Florentine:
Good point... So the jinx brought *fake* Moody to fall because of his
worst character trait: being evil.

When I said that Moody came to grief because of being paranoid, I was
thinking of _real_ Moody. Everybody believed that paranoid old Moody
was just imagining the attack on him, shortly before the school year
started. So nobody thought of the possibility that he might actually
have been kidnapped and put into a trunk. And nobody came to save him.

I think the jinx got both of them.

Greetings,
Florentine