The DADA Jinx

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 110645

Caesian:
"It also makes perfect sense - who wants a DADA teacher with terrible 
dark secrets?

To review:
Quirrell - everyone now knows he was two-faced.
Lockhart - everyone knows he is a fake.
Lupin - everyone knows he is a werewolf.
Imposter!Moody - everyone knows he was Barty Crouch Jr.
Umbridge - everyone knows she was incompetent, lawbreaking and is now 
out of power"

DuffyPoo:
I guess I'm going to have to go read the books again as I don't see any of these except Lupin, possibly. The only people who know Lupin is a werewolf are families of Hogwarts students.  That's not quite everybody.  Apart from the teaching postion, he also has Umbridge's draft legislation working against him.  Unless he lies on every job application, possible employers are going to find out.

Was Quirrel two-faced?  He was "a foolish young man" "full of rediculous ideas" in his own words.  LV called him "young, foolish and gullible" easy to bend to his will.  Impressionable and foolish but not two-faced.  Everything he did (in the year we know him) he did for one purpose.  I never saw loyalty to DD from him.  Trying to kill a student isn't loyal to your employer.

I don't think everyone knows he is a fake.  Obviously, if Gladys Gudgeon is still sending weekly letters to Lockhart she is unaware.  The Healer said, "He was rather well known a few years ago; we very much hope that this liking for giving autographs is a sign that his memroy might be starting to come back."  Doesn't sound, to me, like she is aware he is a fraud.  All they know, and probably all the public knows, is that he lost his memory in a freak accident.

I don't think much can be said about Mad-Eye Moody as it wasn't really him.  The worst thing that happened to him as a teacher is that he never got to teach.  

While we know that Umbrdige was incompetent and lawbreaking, what evidence do we have that anyone else knows?  Neither Harry nor Lee, as far as we know, told a teacher about the blood-quill.  She'll not be back as a teacher, one would hope, but that doesn't put her out of power with the ministry.  Her plea is that she was working under Fudge's orders.  She did not pass any of the Educational Decrees herself; Cornelius had to sign them all into effect.  She was merely acting on his orders.

As for Snape, Fudge already knows the mark exists, Snape showed it to him.  There were enough DE's incarcerated that it would be safe to assume that if they had the DM, Snape would have had it as well, so anyone who was at Karkaroff's hearing would be safe in assuming it also, as DD said there that Snape had been a DE.

I'd quite like to know what happened to the teachers in the position before Quirrell.  Hagrid says, in CoS, that Lockhart was the only man for the DADA job, because "People aren't too keen to take it on, see.  They're startin' ter think it's jinxed.  No one's lasted long fer a while now."  Some jinx!  One teacher lasted only one year and people think the job's jinxed?  There's got to be more to it that that, IMO.  Who's passing the word that the job's jinxed?  Snape, maybe, because he wants it?  Is he interecepting the applications for the position as well?  

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