[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore -- portrait

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 135289

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Christine wrote:

> Just thinking - Dumbledore has been both suspended (CoS) and 
> sacked (OotP). While I can't argue that DD was a *former* headmaster 
> in Cos, he definately, for all intents and purposes, was *former* in > OotP 
- however, his portrait did not appear (as far as we know)


Melissa:

DD wasn't sacked in OOTP, he left. Remember the HM's office sealed itself 
against Umbridge. . she wasn't the 'rightful' HM.

Based on statements in 3 different books I've come to the conclusion that 
only the Hogwarts Board of Governors has the power to appoint a HM, not the MOM. 

1. In HBP McG states that it will be up to the Board of Governors to decide 
if the school remains open.  
2  In COS it was the Board of Governors (with Lucuis' influence) who suspend 
DD as headmaster . . . not terminate.
3.In OOTP DD tells Fudge at Harry's hearing that the MOM  has no power to 
expell a Hogwarts student.  

And since the Bd. of Governors didn't act against him in OOTP, DD remained 
the rightful HM and no protrait was needed.

Melissa


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