The DADA jinx and its victims (Was:The best reason for Dumbledore to trust

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 138058



To condense Carol's well thought out and detailed post, she proposes
that the nature of the curse is that prior to the start of the term,
an agent of the task of undoing the Professor by way of his/her own
darker side chances itself into ambush position. In PS/SS Quirrel puts
on the Turban right before coming to Hogwarts after he fails to get
the stone from Gringotts, in COS Ron's wand breaks just as they arrive
at Hogwarts, In POA Carol suggests that the agent is the Marauders
Map, but I kind of differ in thinking that the agent is the unfinished
business among the Marauders and also between them and Snape. Sorry
Carol, but your excellent telling of the tale of the jinx's ambush
upon Lupin made me almost absolutely sure that the agent involved
Snape making Lupins potion too, meaning that the agent was the old
feud, resurrected by Sirius escape from Azkaban. What is likely is
that right after Lupin was offered the job *blammo* Sirus sees Peter
on Rons shoulder. The DADA jinx has actually *catalysed* Sirius'
escape.. ! wow, deep huh. Ok back to the point which was..... that by
the hypothesis there is an agent that appears before start of term,
and the DADA Professor is usually done in by their own darker side in
the end. 

Since Carol didn't give too many specifics for the Jinx acting on
Moody and Umbridge, I think I 'll just test the hypothesis on these
two. First what undoes Umbridge is fairly okay under this, basically
she is done in by her own policy drafts essentially, (which Carol may
find she likes does 'metaphorically' /mean/ her blood drawing quill, I
think) and the agent poised to undo her in the end would most likely
be the mobilised action against her bigoted policies namely (S.P.E.W.
founder Hermione Granger), Grawp (the now virtually integratably
civilised Giant) and his being brought to the forest by Hagrid which
rouses the Centaurs. It could also be her attack on Harry, actually,
the sending of the Dementors to Little Whinging did catalyse most of
the mobility against her, a lot of her undoing was people who were
mobilised to defend Harry and what he stood for, now that I think
about it.

Okay so fairly comfortably Umbridge fits the pattern, her demented
drafting definitely undid her and she placed it herself right before
she got to Hogwarts. So that brings us finally to Crouch. His undoing
is not really clear. Essentially it's that Dumbledore figured him out.
So I think that the Agent here, is the Dark Mark. Lets think of it as
the last cog to slide into place when DD was wondering why Moody took
Harry away from him, DD's counting down the clues as to Moody's
strange behaviour and it's that darn silly Dark Mark he conjured at
the QWC that gave him away in the last seconds. Its neatly placed
right before the start of term, thematically it pervades the story, so
I think that it makes a real good agent, in fact.

Ok so we have Umbridges Quill (or rather what she uses it for) and
Crouch's Dark Mark, and the DADA Jinx looks a lot like Carols proposal
to me. 

So what about Snape? Some are proposing that he might have thought
that he would be cunning enough to break the curse. I really like that
actually. So I would like to speculate on that premise, and see where
it leads.

What appears to happen in HBP is that the UV is the agent of the
curse. It fits the pattern, appears before the start of term, strung
along through the plot it lies in wait to ambush its prey.. all good. 

Skip a few details and get to the points that we are seeming to
establish so far. In each case the actual agent of the undoing is
itself representative of the dark side of the DADA teacher, Quirrel's
Dark side - working for Voldemort - killed by Voldemorts own handiwork
(the protection in Harry's skin), Gilderoy's Dark side - One Spell
Wonder - loses all to his spell, Lupins Dark side - Secrets kept for
his friends - loses his job to his secret that his friends kept for
him, Crouch's Dark Side - His Dark Mark which he loves - Undone in the
end by his Dark Mark, Umbridges Dark Side - drafting sadistic
legislation - gets treated to laws of another autonomous sentient. 
  
So what we are looking for in the UV is the connection to Snapes Dark
side. It's obvious, but it's still ambiguous. Snape's Dark side is
clearly that someone shouldn't Trust him. Trust is the point of a
Unbreakable Vow, or should I say a lack of it. Now like I said, it
remains ambiguous because we already knew that *someone* was being
decieved by Snape, does the UV tell us anything more about who it is
that is being decieved? 

What is each using it's agent for? Quirrel is hiding behind his
turban, Lockhart is Hiding behind his Wand, Lupin hides behind his
secret, Crouch is not hiding behind his Dark Mark, he wants nothing
more than to reveal that, but he's hiding behind other things (:S
anomaly), Umbridge is hiding behind her Quill (what a wuss <g>) but
she also seems to want to reveal her Dark side too not hide it... Ohh
darn we are no closer than we were before. Can anyone else talk me out
of giving up on this line of thought.

If we assume that we can apply the same as the first three DADA
techers then we are assuming that Snape uses the UV to hide behind.
But if we are going to assume there is a pattern then Snape uses the
UV to reveal himself. If we are assuming nothing then it goes either
way, darn it! ambiguous again.

Valky 
Who is beginning to think that all roads 'Snape' lead to dead ends.