Dumbledore's Staff Was Re McGonagall/Teachers

[Tanya Swaine]

No: HPFGUIDX 81523

Elle wrote:
>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?)


One thing to note.  I am assuming that only that which is said is in
the book.  Final chapter of book 2 has a brief explanation by Ron that
Lockhart messed up the memory charm.  Dumbledore then says that
he impaled himself on his own sword.  Not that I can see did Ron say
that it was his method for writing the books.  I guess then that maybe
Dumbeldore knew before.  But as to the reason for hiring him, I have no
idea of the long term advantage.

Tanya