Why *didn't* Dumbledore fill DADA post? (Re: Potion Master...)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 83480

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hagrid" <aussie_lol at y...> 
wrote:
> If Snape left Potions, then Umbridge would have taught that class 
by 
> getting the class to read from chapter one ..."-and don't bother 
> about bringing those cauldrons thingys," she'd say. "The smell of 
> potions brewing makes me come out in hives, so we will just read."
> 
> Any good wizard or witch trusted by DD for DADA would be busy in 
the 
> Order. 


Jen: Yes, I was scanning the possible options for an alternative 
DADA and the people who could possibly qualify for the job, i.e. 
Charlie, Bill, Tonks, etc. would not want to be overtly connected to 
Dumbledore in OOTP. Not because any of those people would care what 
the Ministry thinks, but because Fudge might view any new apointee 
as part of the army DD is amassing: "...that's exactly what he's 
<Fudge> afraid Dumbledore's doing---forming his own private army..." 
(OOTP, US, chap. 14, p. 303.

Hiring one of the Weaslys or a person away from the Ministry would 
probably be enough for Fudge to close Hogwarts! (LOL, it suddenly 
strikes me as very funny that Fudge worries so much about this when 
the Order has been around for years. Could one individual be so 
clueless--doesn't he have any good spies?)

Anyway, back to the business at hand. I realized the proclamation 
was written on August 30th, the day before school starts, so there 
would be little time for DD to rearrange the teachers he has or look 
for another Potions master, if that's what he decided to do.

That begs the question, what was he planning to do come Sept. 1st? 
Teach DADA himself ;)? Now *that* would be an interesting class.


Now Del:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/83463

> Or maybe DD wanted the students to know what the Ministry was 
>really like ? <snip> 
>Umbridge did DD a huge service, by pushing most students to give 
>their trust to him rather than to the Ministry.

Jen: If DD *did* want a Ministry official at Hogwarts, either for 
spying purposes or for the reason Del mentions above, I don't think 
even he realized how well Umbridge would execute the plan for him! 
Sirius seemed to know little about Umbridge in the chapter "Percy 
and Padfoot", so I suspect DD and the Order didn't know exactly who 
the Ministry would appoint to take over the DADA position.