Hogwarts Teachers (was History at Hogwarts) (was Re: Wizard Persecution )

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 126191


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> Binns & Trelawney seem to be less well argued away with this 
> explanation, at least in terms of keeping them on as *teachers* as 
> opposed to keeping them in some other capacity at Hogwarts.  Since 
> Hogwarts has many ghosts, if Binns is less than a dynamic & fairly 
> ineffective history teacher, couldn't he just be a "regular" 
Hogwarts 
> ghost and somebody more skilled could teach History?

GEO: Perhaps Binns knows about secrets to the school and its history 
that are valuable to the headmasters of the school, which would be 
why they would keep him on the HoM post.

> I'm also wondering where *Lockhart* would fall in this category 
> of "These Teachers Have Something Else to Teach."  Into the "Harry 
> Must Learn That You Can't Always Trust a Pretty Face (or a 
Conceited 
> Blowhard)" category?  Or perhaps it falls more into your next 
point:

GEO: Or perhaps Lockhart was forced upon Dumbledore by the Board of 
Governors under Lucius Malfoy? Afterall what better way to sabotage 
the school and help Tom Riddle than by appointing an idiot to the 
post there and no doubt the Governors or a good number of them would 
have went along with it thanks to Lockhart's undeserved reputation.

> SSSusan:
> But if, as you suggest, there just *aren't* many adult witches or 
> wizards capable of AND interested in teaching DADA, because of an 
> overall small wizarding population, I guess I could understand it.
> 
> But wouldn't teaching DADA be one of the coolest jobs? :-)

GEO: This after a major and brutal terrorist war with a Dark Lord 
whose name people are afraid to speak of even after he was gone for 
10 years? Considering the amount of fear there is towards Voldemort 
and his name, I think the teaching of something like DADA would be 
shunned by the majority of population just because of its 
association with Voldemort despite the fact that it would be a 
necessity against him.