Aberforth as DADA teacher/

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 115589



 
 Replying to Dungrollin:
 
> Erm... About Aberforth being DADA teacher...  Doesn't DD say he's 
> not sure that Aberforth can read?  How's he going to mark homework?  
> And if he can't read, how did he get through Hogwarts?

That's the point. Practical magic only. (Contrast to Umbridge) We
don't know how good Aberforth is in casting spells. Maybe he's the
expert of Ancient Magic (Possibly even more so than Albus because he's
not spending his time reading but observing), a Legimens, an Occlumens
and who knows what else. It's possible that Aberforth never attended
Hogwarts, but contacted Nicolas Flamel instead...

I'm certain he knows how to use a Pensieve etc.

As for homework:

Tasks for all year:
Learn to know each other so you'll know when someone's posing as your
friend - (and then he gets Polyjuice Potion - either brewing it
himself or having Snape do it - to test them)

Constant Vigilance. Taught by several pranks.

Dungrollin:
> Is DD so desperate to fill the post that he'll employ an illiterate 
> and totally unqualified bar-keeper with a record for doing odd 
> things to goats?

Finwitch:

Aberforth was *accused* of doing it. Nothing states he was guilty of
anything - presumably Albus knows the truth about it. For all we know,
Aberforth was attempting to get bezoars from their stomachs with a new
spell that wouldn't kill the goat, or was simply near a goat, or the
whole story had no truth in it. (the comment about that accusation was
just to tell Hagrid he's not the only one of whom people say nasty
things in press). And even that could have happened 100 years ago...

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But off the line: What *would* happen to a magically powerful child
who never learned to read? Or one who learned even less, one who grew
up in woods, raised by animals, not learning about how to socialise
with humans? Would such a child even *go* to Hogwarts?

Finwitch