Dumbledore's Staff Was Re McGonagall/Teachers

[ellejir]

No: HPFGUIDX 81505

Sandy (aka msbeadsley) wrote:

> Lockhart could have been an adequate teacher in spite of being a 
> fraud, though. He knew the spells, in the academic sense of being 
> able to go through the motions: he had at least witnessed and/or 
> could talk about the things he said he had done.  <huge snip>

Elle (me):
Actually, Lockhart was *terrible* at performing the spells (think of 
his woeful performance in dueling club encounter with Snape, his 
inept attempt to repair Harry's broken arm and his inability to 
control the pixies.)  His only real magical talent was in the area of 
memory charms (as he himself admitted to Ron and Harry.)  
It is a puzzle as to why DD would have hired such a buffoon. Was he 
not aware that Lockhart was a fraud (if so, so much for all-knowing!
Dumbledore), or was he trying to expose the students to all types of 
people (including conceited idiots) as Sandy suggested? (Or perhaps 
did JKR just think that CoS needed some more comic relief?)