Lupin & passive-aggressiveness Re: Werewolves and RL equivalents/ some Siriu

[lizzyben04]

No: HPFGUIDX 170487

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lynda Cordova" 
<moosiemlo at ...> wrote:
>
> lizzyben:
> 
> DD would keep Lupin if he wanted to - the
> fact is that DD no longer wanted Lupin to teach at Hogwarts, so he
> either fired Lupin or accepted his resignation. This IMO has less 
to do
> w/Lupin's lycanthropy & more to do w/Lupin's lies to him & failure
> follow his instructions.
> 
> Lynda:
> 
> Umm...no DADA teacher has remained in that position according to 
Dumbledore,
> since Voldemort applied for the position the second time, so the 
point was
> moot. It was not a case of Dumbledore keeping Lupin on if he 
wanted to. He
> knew, when he hired Lupin that it was a one year position, just as 
it had
> been with the others and so has nothing to do with Lupin's being a 
werewolf
> at all. The position is cursed.
> 
> Lynda

lizzyben:

It doesn't seem like that's the way the curse works. Quirrel didn't 
submit his resignation because of the "DADA curse," he left because 
people found out VD was living in his turban. Lockhart didn't resign 
because the curse requires it, he left after being oblivated after 
attacking Harry. etc. It doesn't seem like the curse works in 
an "official" way - as in, the teacher knows & accepts it's a one-
year term & then resigns. No, the curse works instead to expose & 
intensify that person's faults & secrets. Dead, disgraced, exposed, 
humiliated, they leave. 

So, no, I don't think DD accepted Lupin's resignation because of the 
curse, instead, the curse worked to expose Lupin's faults & lies 
until he had no choice but to leave. DD has kept people at Hogwarts 
before, even after they made a mistake - Hagrid & Trelawny, for 
example. He could have kept Lupin teaching in a different position, 
or let him live at Hogwarts. But he didn't. And he didn't let Lupin 
stay because Lupin had proven himself untrustworthy around students, 
and disloyal to Dumbledore (cynically, I think this bothered DD the 
most). DD was forced to let Lupin go, & I think Lupin was secretly 
glad to be gone. 

Now that I think of it, it seems almost cruel to keep hiring a new 
DADA teacher/victim each year, when everyone else knows that person 
will end up destroyed or disgraced by the end of that year. I wonder 
if DD includes that little clause in the employment contract? 

Lizzyben