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

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 83491


"Jen Reese" <stevejjen> wrote: (snipped)

> > If Snape could teach DADA, why didn't DD move him over for
> > the year and look for a temporary Potions teacher so that
> > Umbridge wasn't appointed? Maybe I'm assuming too much to
> > say another Potions Master is readily available.
> >
> > Unless Dumbledore wanted a Ministry offical at Hogwarts.
> >
> > Sure, it could be a plot device, to bring in Umbridge
> > to depict the tensions between Hogwarts and the MOM
>

"Hagrid" <aussie_lol at yahoo.com.au>:
 
> 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. The only exception was Sirius Black. He would have been great,
> if not for the fact that every Auror and dementor in the country was
> after him.


Iggy here:

You could also have the fact that AD really knows a lot about the nature of
the Trio, and allowed Umbridge into the DADA position because he had a hunch
that the Trio would create something like the DA, like they did...

He's shown this tendency before... like giving Harry the knowledge, and the
chance, to face Voldemort in PS/SS... like hinting about aid for those loyal
to him in CoS, knowing Harry would go to face down the basilisk... that type
of thing...

It's definitely something AD would do...


Just my two cantaurs worth

Iggy McSnurd