Dumbledore's near-criminal irresponsibility

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 160652

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eric Oppen" <technomad at ...> wrote:
e.

 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.  

Pippin:
Do you think it would be that easy? More to the point, do you think
Harry escaped the DADA curse? He didn't finish out the year as 
unofficial DADA instructor, nor did he return to the post. And he was
smitten by the greatest personal tragedy of his life so far. I don't
think the curse is outwitted so lightly.

It would be boring for Rowling to give us detail on all the ways that
Dumbledore tried to circumvent the curse, considering that we 
already know they didn't work. I think we just have to accept that
he did his best, but Voldemort is a mighty wizard too, mightier
than Dumbledore in some ways.

Pippin