[HPforGrownups] Re: Inconsistencies in the DADA position

[caesian]

No: HPFGUIDX 132093


On Jun 30, 2005, at 2:02 AM, finwitch wrote:

> > BriefChronicles now:
>
> > If he knew that the DADA position would reveal the professor's
> darkest
> > secret, then why would he hire Lupin?
>
> Finwitch:
>
> It is possible that Dumbledore didn't *know* but doubted it and since
> all the staff already knew, it's questionable whether Lupin's
> lycanthropy could be even considered a secret. Dumbledore may have
> figured that this way he'd find the truth about things like: Did
> Remus help Sirius escape? etc.
>
> Besides, the revealance tended to come out at the end of the year -
> after this teacher has taught the students. What, I ask, would a
> student figure, after witnessing Lupin's gentle manner and excellence
> at his subject and teaching it for a year when this revelation comes
> out? Probably that being a werewolf is not such a bad thing as
> Ministry &al. say it is...
>
> BTW, Hagrid's secret was *also* revealed after he became a professor,
> so that spell might not be limited to DADA at all. He, however,
> managed to keep the secret for over a year...
>
> I wonder, though -- could these few lines of Hogwarts school song
> (that Dumbledore conducted for the Weasley twins) be a magically
> binding contract?
>
> 'So teach us things worth knowing,
> Bring back what we've forgot,
> Just do your best, we'll do the rest,
> And learn until our brains all rot.'
>
> I ask you, why did the teachers' smiles become fixed when Dumbledore
> came about with the song?
>
> Finwitch
>
>

I think Finwitch is correct here, and has been for some time!  See  
below:


On Aug 19, 2004, at 3:34 AM, finwitch wrote:
 >
 >  2) It is possible that the DADA post IS sort of jinxed. Anyone who
 >  has taught DADA has had his darkest secret revealed; incompetent/ 
evil
 >  ones get themselves hurt. Dumbledore would NOT want Snape's Dark  
Mark
 >  leak into the public...

Caesian (Aug 19, 2004):

Oh - my - gosh.  This is exactly right.

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

If Snape took the DADA post, everyone would know ... ?


Obviously something Dumbledore does not want revealed (- although Snape
applies for the position anyway.  Maybe he is unaware of the nature of
the jinx?)

Caesian