Re McGonagall/Teachers was Re: Death Eaters

[sbursztynski]

No: HPFGUIDX 81512

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> Salit:
> > Lockhart is the only choice I don't understand, as I am sure that 
> > Dumbledore knew he was a fraud. Perhaps he had no other
candidates 
> > and took him as a last resort. Or maybe it was his quirky sense
of 
> > humor? Lockhart was one of the funniest characters in the entire 
> > series...
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> I'm not sure I agree. I think he was potentially one of the most 
> sinister.... The fact that he had amassed all the material for his 
> books fraudulently and was then also prepared to destroy Harry and 
> Ron's memories and allow Ginny to die to keep the matter under
wraps 
> still raises the hairs on the back of my neck. Nooo. Me no like 
> Professor Lockhart.

True. And yet, there was a certain pathos about him in OoP, even 
though you knew what had happened to him was his own fault.

I do remember it said somewhere in CoS that he'd got the job because 
he was the only applicant. Maybe they really aren't lining up for the 
job, after hearing about the "jinx" on it - Quirrell is the first one 
*we* encounter, but weven in the first novel it mentions DADA is a 
jinxed job. Sue B