Dumbledore's judgment

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 166004

"colebiancardi" <muellem at ...> wrote: 

> Quirell was, if I am not mistaken, 
> on a leave of absence for a year and
> had been the DADA teacher the year
> before that.  

That's news to me, and news to JKR too; or maybe you are indeed mistaken. 

> Lockhart's one talent was Memory 
> Charms & that could have clouded
> DD's judgement

Explaining why someone has crappie judgment does not make that
judgment one bit less crappie.

> DD hired the real Mad-Eye, not the Fake one.  

And for nearly a year could not tell the real from the fake. Sounds
like crappie judgment to me.

> Snape has proven his trustworthness 
> to DD throughout the series. 

I must say the fact that Snape murdered Dumbledore is enough to
engender in my mind a tiny seed of doubt in your theory, but we will
know the truth on July 21.

> I am not sure what "he figured (incorrectly)
> that information was no longer of any value."
> this means.I don't know who "he is"

"He" is Snape.

> and why "he" figured incorrectly

Snape figured Harry could never escape from Umbridge and make it all
the way to the ministry, he (Snape) was wrong. 

> DD does state that it is almost entirely
> his(DD) fault, but I am not sure I would 
> go as far as stating that it was a HUGE
> error in judgemen 

If your error in judgment leads to the death of a good and innocent
man I tend to think that error was on the rather large side. 

Eggplant