Saving Ginny (was Re: Lockhart's incompetence)

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No: HPFGUIDX 143252

> Geoff:
> My concern is, that although there is a certain amount of smug 
> satisfaction in watching Lockhart backpedalling, what were the staff 
> actually proposing to /do/ about Ginny once they'd got him out of 
the 
> way?
> 
> It seems fairly obvious that they didn't expect him to get very far 
> but then immediately turned their minds to less urgent matters such 
> as keeping the students secure in the dormitories and sending them 
> home on the Hogwarts Express. There seemed to be no thought of 
trying 
> to reach Ginny....



Alla:

YES, Geoff thank you for expressing my point so clearly. I KNOW that 
teachers were sarcastic and did not held Lockhart iin high respect. I 
still think that the exact level of his incompetence may not have been 
known to them, but that is not even important.

My biggest problem is that teachers were NOT doing anything except 
urging Gilderoy to go there ( yeah, most likely they were not 
sincere), but I would expect a bit more action from truly competent 
adults.

I also think that it is way to early to conclude that Ginny is dead.

We can invent many, many explanations of why staff was not doing 
anything and I am sure that many of them are very creative. We are 
creative people after all. :-)

But (to me only of course) it does not change the fact that one of the 
possible explanations is that the adults have to be helpless in order 
for kids to succeed.

I think that for the most part adults incompetence works for the story 
as in we don't think that the adults are idiots, but simply humans, 
but sometimes their incompetence becomes a bit too much to swallow.

And going back to original points of brnging up examples of adult's 
incompetence, of course to me Dumbledore is a chief example of such.

He has a good heart and best intentions, but he very often fails in 
executing them.

JMO of course,

Alla.