Karkaroff as Headmaster (WAS: Snape&Lucius)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 164783

Carol earlier:
> > <snip> It's only Draco, after all, who tells us that the Dark Arts
are actually taught at Durmstrang 
> 
Neri responded:
> Actually it's not only Draco. Hermione had it from a book, a sure
sign of JKR supplying us with required WW background.
> GoF, Ch. 11: 
> 
> "Durmstrang's another wizarding school?" said Harry.
> 
> "Yes," said Hermione sniffily, "and it's got a horrible reputation.
> According to 'An Appraisal of Magical Education in Europe', it puts
a lot of emphasis on the Dark Arts."

Carol again:

Yes, I saw that quote after I'd written my post (which goes to show
that I should check canon rather than quoting from memory, but I don't
always have time). But what exactly does "put[ting] a lot of emphasis
on the Dark Arts" mean? Hermione doesn't say that the students are
taught to perform Unforgiveable Curses (or Dark magic in general,
since the Unforgiveables haven't yet been introduced). Surely, the
Durmstrang students don't Crucio each other or their teachers, much
less AK them. (Maybe young DEs like Barty Jr., who *do* learn the
Unforgiveables, practice on animals?)

Maybe, unlike Hogwarts students (when Barty isn't teaching them),
Durmstrang students actually learn what the Dark Arts *are.* But that
doesn't mean that Krum has ever actually performed a Crucio before,
nor does it account for his evident shame at the end-of-year banquet:
"Krum, Harry saw, looked wary, almost frightened, as though he
expected Dumbledore to say something harsh" (723). His Crucio was the
result of an Imperius Curse performed by Barty Crouch Jr., the man who
demonstrated the three Unforgiveable Curses to fourth-years, in
essence teaching the the Dark Arts at Hogwarts, or at least "putting a
lot of emphasis" on them. Perhaps Durmstrang uses similar teaching
methods? (Surely, the Unforgiveables are Unforgiveable in all of the
WW, not just Britain?)

BTW, with the possible exception of Antonin Dolohov, the DEs we know
about, including Karkaroff (see upthread), seem to be products of
Hogwarts, not Durmstrang. (It's *very* odd that Barty Sr., a product
of Hogwarts, would state so emphatically that he hates the Dark Arts
and anyone who ractices them yet authorize his own aurors to use the
Unforgiveables and use the Imperius Curse himself on his own son.
What's up with that?)

Carol, who still doesn't think that Krum could or would have performed
a Crucio had he not been Imperiused by Barty Jr. (who got twelve OWLs
at Hogwarts)