[HPforGrownups] DADA curse and Re: Maligning Lupin

[Kim]

No: HPFGUIDX 150618

Pippin theorizes:
Back in PS/SS, Hagrid defends Snape by saying that he wouldn't hurt 
a student because he's a Hogwarts teacher. It sounds like Hagrid  thinks
all Hogwarts teachers are saints at the time.  But what if the spells
of protection on Hogwarts provide that a teacher who deliberately
endangers or attempts to harm a student will be cast out? It would
certainly appeal to Voldemort if he could turn the Founders' magic
to his benefit.


Kim replies:  
This is an interesting theory, and one I like.  But I have one problem with it.  Remember when Barty!Moody transifigured Malfoy into a ferret and bounced him around? That definately should have triggered such such a protection spell, I'd think.  I can't check the book right now, it's loaned out.  I am not sure if he was bounced around just in the movie or if it was in the book too.  Maybe just a transfiguration of a student wouldn't cause a protection spell to jump in but I would hope it would.  

Kim... who thinks every school should have such a spell.

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