Inconsistencies in the DADA position

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 131715

> 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