[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's judgment (WAS Hermione and 'Evil is a strong word')

[Draeconin]

No: HPFGUIDX 165968

a_svirn wrote:
> Afraid not. Dumbledore's judgement proved to be unsound. The man he 
> trusted so completely just killed him. And now everything he ever 
> said about Snape is suspect. Hermione can only trust the information 
> that came from the sources other than Dumbledore. 

Draeconin:

Dumbledore's judgment has always been unsound in my opinion, as 
evidenced by most of the DADA teachers, Trelawny, and Professor Binns.

The reasons for naming the DADA teachers are self-evident. Trelawney was, 
for the most part, a pretentious fake. Up to the point where Umbridge 
had her fired, she had only two genuine prophecies. The only reason I 
can see for Dumbledore hiring her was to keep track of her in case she 
had another prophecy after the first. Was that good enough reason to 
inflict her on students who might have actually learned something under 
another teacher?

And Professor Binns: if he had been the least bit animated (no pun 
intended) and made an effort to make the subject matter interesting...  
I'm sure Harry and Ron weren't the only ones going to sleep in that 
class. How many received a substandard mark because the ghost just 
droned on and on. Not to mention he must have been like that in life as 
well.

One can almost understand why he kept Snape on, since the man seems to 
have been a brilliant potions master and he needed a reason for Snape to 
be able to talk to him. But as a teacher, Snape's blatant bias against 
Gryffindor (who knows about the other Houses) and his favoritism towards 
Slytherins couldn't have led to a good learning environment - especially 
for the Gryffindors.

So there are plenty of instances to show Dumbledore's poor judgment.


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