[HPforGrownups] The DADA jinx and its victims

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 138009

Carol wrote:
>into a portkey. (I've given even less thought to Umbridge or how she
>shapes her own fall, which of course takes the shape of unknown
>punishments by the centaur that rob her of what passes for her mind,
>with Hermione rather than Snape playing a key role in her fall. I
>haven't thought about the agent. Perhaps there isn't one. It ought to
>be her horrible blood-drawing quill, but it doesn't seem to be.)

I wonder if the jinx affects Dolores in the form of hubris: she goes from
just being the DADA professor to being the Inquisitor to being the Head and
steadily the amount of stress that she's under rises. Finally, she's
desperately trying to control a school that's fallen into virtual anarchy,
rushing from crisis to crisis and getting more and more fraught until she
commits the cardinal error of trying to crucio Harry. Just a thought there.

>But Snape as DADA teacher fits the pattern beautifully. He takes a
>post he has supposedly wanted for fifteen years, knowing that it's
>jinxed. He has in one way or another contributed to the fall of the

>Instead, almost as soon as he accepts the DADA position, the curse
>manifests itself in the form of the Unbreakable Vow, directly linked
>with Voldemort's plan to punish the Malfoys and perhaps to kill
>Dumbledore. Through pride or folly or some other fault within himself,
>Snape agrees to take the vow and is trapped by the unanticipated third
>provision to "do the deed" if Draco fails.

A very interesting post!

Another possible cause for speculation is why Dumbledore, knowing of the
existence of the jinx, didn't alert at least some of the professors to its
existence so that they could try to counter it...

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