Lockhart's incompetence

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No: HPFGUIDX 143218

>Geoff:
>But surely the "dark/secret/characteristic point" with Moody is
>precisely that he /isn't/ Moody; he is an impostor. Crouch Junior 
has
>learned about Moody's paranoid habits and is copying them to cover
>his real personality.

Orna:
That's true. I hadn't count Crouch as a DADA teacher. As far as 
Crouch Jr.'s is concerned,   his secret is revealed, again, because 
in the moment of his insane excitement to prove himself to 
Voldermort, he rushes away with Harry, thus arousing suspicion, and 
neglects to check his foe glass, while DD & company are approaching -
  thus ending his teaching career <g>

Perhaps I'm  too perfectionist here – But Moody himself – what made 
him "fail" the position, so to speak? He was the one appointed for 
the task, and "left" after a year? Or perhaps does the curse apply 
to the person, who teaches in fact, that way enacting the curse. 
Perhaps this is what you are meaning? (Not that being imperiused in 
a box, for a whole year, doesn't sound like a curse to me
). And 
while thinking about it, it is Moody's paranoid traits which made 
this possible – I mean Arthur believing, he would suspect innocent 
dust-bins, his having a secret compartment in his own trunk, big 
enough to capture a man, and his eccentric behavior, making place 
for excusing weird incidents with Crouch as his anti-dark obsession. 


Orna, reaching her last post for today