Are prodigals allowed?

[Kimberly]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "susiequsie23" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> Welcome back, Kimberly... from one who wasn't even around when you 
left, I'm afraid. ;-)  

Thanks to all for being so welcoming!  You guys really are the best. 
For those of you who don't know me, a little intro:

I'm Kimberly Moon.  Was Moony to most throughout grade school.  When 
using my name I go with kimberly rather than kim in order to avoid 
having to explain that I'm not a Korean boy.
I'm from St. Louis, MO.  Have lived in elsewhere now and then, but 
this has always been home, more or less.  I'm 34, a frustrated (due 
to lack of funds) travel junkie, a treasure hunter and a flake. Also 
a Christian with suspicions that the religious right were issued 
different Bibles than mine.  

As for anything that might make me actually relevant to you guys, I'm 
the one who introduced Faith a few years back.  I've always assumed 
R/H and H/G, and while I can't remember clearly, it's possible that 
OBHWF was coined in response to one of my posts.  I feel much better 
about it now, as at the time I think I was considered pretty naive.

Susan:
> As to your question, my inclination is to believe that Snape knew 
about the jinx on the position.  Maybe not all the particulars (did 
anyone know the *particulars* of the jinx?), but I think he 
understood that taking the position meant you'd not be in it long 
term.  

> That said, I think he applied every year either: 
> A) as part of a ruse to give the impression (for the DE kids & 
their parents) that he wanted the position tho mean ol' DD wouldn't 
let him have it;
> or 
> B) out of a genuine desire to teach DADA and as a way of showing DD 
that he was willing to do whatever was necessary, even if it meant 
his being jinxed or his only being able to perform the job for a year.

I think if he did know, it must have been A, but we do know 
Dumbledore has a tendency to keep things to himself.  It's probably 
completely irrelevant to anything big and plotty, but that was the 
thing that popped into my head when we learned it was jinxed after 
all.

It actually makes me look back at all the DADA appointments over the 
years:
Quirrel:
I'm still confused about Quirrel since PS/SS made it seem like he had 
taught a year previously, but maybe it's only jinxed so the same 
person can't have it two years *in a row*?  The sabbatical would make 
sense then.  Wish Harry had asked Fred and George who taught the year 
before he got there.

Lockhart:
I can't believe Dumbledore didn't know he was a fraud to begin with, 
but maybe DD couldn't find anybody else and since he knew he'd only 
last a year it was  better than nothing?  I can see DD thinking it 
would be good for the kids to have to survive his lessons.

Lupin:
I'd like to think he told him about the jinx.  I think Remus would 
have taken the job in spite of it - even knowing it would only be one 
year, he'd want to go back to the school where he'd had friends and 
acceptance.

Not!Moody:
No doubt in my mind that when Moody took the job wouldn't have cared 
about the jinx.  He's too crotchety to be bothered by that sort of 
thing.  Too bad he didn't even make a day, much less a year - I think 
he'd have rocked it.  Since it wasn't really him, you'd think he 
could do it again though, but I guess by the end of GoF the Order 
needed him more than Hogwarts did.  In fact, I think that must be 
true of all of DD's possible picks for the job, which is why he 
couldn't find one for the next year, and they ended up with...

Umbridge:
Only regret I have with her being jinxed is that the centaurs didn't 
feed her to the acromantulas.

Anyway, how many of them do you think knew about the jinx?

Kimberly