[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's near-criminal irresponsibility

[puduhepa98 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 160634

technomad
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As Headmaster, not to mention an immensely prestigous wizard, Dumbledore  has 
a great deal of latitude about whom he hires as a teacher, and what is  and 
is not taught at Hogwarts. (Remember, at one point he was thinking about  
not offering Divination.) Once he twigged that there was some sort of curse  
on the DADA teacher's job, he should have done something. Perhaps, if he  
couldn't just quit _having_ a separate DADA class and make sure that what's  
needed is covered in other classes' curricula (the Patronus Charm, forex,  
could be covered in Charms class) he could have swapped around and had Binns  
teach DADA. I don't think there's much that the DADA curse could do to a  
ghost---they'ghost---they'<WBR>re pretty hard to hurt or kill. Of course, that
opening for a History of Magic teacher---and if "History of Magic"  just 
_happens_ to go into great detail about Dark Magic and how best to  resist 
it, well, a lot of history is the struggle between Dark and Light  magic, 
isn't it?
<snip of entertaining vision of SS teaching  HOM>
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It does occur to me that abolishing DADA, or folding it into  other subjects 
and fobbing it off onto Binns, might cause problems with the  OWLs and NEWTs. 
If this were done, Dumbledore might have to explain that  there is reason to 
believe that there is a curse on the position, and either  abolish the DADA 
OWL and NEWT, or just accept that very few Hogwarts  students will do well on 
those particular tests, and allow for it.  

Nikkalmati:
 
This is a perfectly beautiful idea.  I nominate you as the new  Headmaster of 
Hogwarts.  <g>
I suspect there are practical reasons why he could not do this.  He  would 
have to get the approval of the Board of Governors to drop DADA wouldn't  he? He 
may not be willing to admit the position is jinxed even after he begins  to 
suspect it.  Perhaps, everyone already knows about the jinx - the  students 
seem to be aware of it.  In that case, no one would expect to last  more than one 
year.  I am not sure terrible things happened to each  teacher.  If that were 
the case, absolutely no one would apply long before  the time of the SS/PS.
 
Nikkalmati


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