Dumbledore's judgment

[colebiancardi]

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> "colebiancardi" <muellem@> 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.  
> 

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

colebiancardi wrote:

nope, I am not mistaken - I quoted the passage that Hagrid stated that
Quirell was the DADA teacher, then left for a year to go the Black
Forest.  Read upthread for the quote.


colebiancardi:
> 
> > Lockhart's one talent was Memory 
> > Charms & that could have clouded
> > DD's judgement
> 
eggplant:
> Explaining why someone has crappie judgment does not make that
> judgment one bit less crappie.
> 

colebiancardi:  
I do think DD was scraping the bottom of the barrel with Lockhart -
who else was there to teach DADA?  Should they have cancelled the class?

>colebiancardi: DD hired the real Mad-Eye, not the Fake one.  
> 
>eggplant: 
> And for nearly a year could not tell the real from the fake. Sounds
> like crappie judgment to me.

colebiancardi:

true.  But the point you were making was that  DD was mistaken in
hiring Fake Mad Eye, when in fact, he did not.

 
> colebiancardi: 
> > 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. 
> 

colebiancardi:

that is one reading, I suppose.  But it is your opinion, and I do not
agree with it.