Why *didn't* Dumbledore fill DADA post? ...Jaded Eyes

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 83571

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "laura"
<strikethepose_vouge at y...> wrote:

> 
> laura here...
> ... reading OOTP ...I found something ... interesting, ...in the
> room of requirement was 'a large, cracked foe-glass that Harry was 
> sure had hung, the previous year, in the fake Moody's office' (uk 
> edition p346) Why would't it have been a nice shiny unbroken 
> foe-glass? And why the connection with fake Moody? 
> ...edited...
>
> laura

bboy_mn:

This relates to something else I noticed about Harry's view of Hogwarts. 

In PS/SS Harry first describes the Gryffindor common room as "...a
cozy, round room full of squashy armchairs".

In the remaining books the commons room is either described in neutral
or positive terms, or at least neutral or positive implication. 

However, in OotP the 'new' seems to have worn off; "...cozy circular
room full of /dilapidated/ squashy armchairs and /rickety/ old
tables", later we find that the rug in front of the fireplace is
threadbare, soot stained, and has burn holes. 

So I speculate that we are seem a small loss of Harry's innocents. In
Gof, when Harry first sees the Foe Glass, he is so impressed with the
Glass and with Moody, that his eyes and his mind overlooks the minor's
flaws, However, in OotP he is far more jaded by life, and far less
impressed by the wizard world he sees, so suddenly cozy squashy
armchairs become dilapidated, and tables that served him quite nicely
are suddenly rickety. And now through Harry's substantially less
'starry' eyes, we see the Foe Glass with warts, cracks, and all.

That covers the cracks, but why JKR made such a specific point of
bring the Foe Glass into that scene and specifically mentioning Moody,
I can not say. Certainly, she could have made it a general purpose Foe
Glass with a casual mention like all the other dark detectors.
Certanly, if the room manufactures the objects found within, then
there would be no reason for it to conjure a 'cracked' Foe Glass. It
seems she made a point of it, Moody's Glass, but never used that
point. The Foe Glass, that I recall, never became significant in the
story. So, on that one point, I am baffled.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn