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Not A Bear
Nov 4, 2009

Chamale posted:

Maybe that's why students had to study so hard for their OWLs - the teachers didn't actually help them learn what they needed to know.

Its probably the 'old style' of learning that Terry Pratchett refers to, where you put students in the presence of large amounts of knowledge and hope that something passes from one to the other

Hopefully the students don't get into the Forbidden section of the Library and end up as a Dark Lord of magic again though

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Not A Bear
Nov 4, 2009

YggiDee posted:

Neville Longbottom's parents were tortured by Death Eaters until they went crazy, and Snape was still the person Neville saw when he faced a Boggart. A Bad Teacher.

Also he can turn into a Bat!

Does that sound like the actions of a Good Guy?

Not A Bear
Nov 4, 2009

Guy A. Person posted:

IIRC it wasn't even a rumor, Dumbledore flat out says it in book 6. And the point it becomes cursed is when Voldemort is rejected for the position, which is well before he became the dark lord. So you're talking in the area of 30 DatDA teachers before Quirrel even starts in book 1.

I'm really hoping that there's a support group for the Surviving Defense Against the Dark Arts Teachers of Hogwarts...unless there are no survivors of course... :ohdear:

Oh wait, I guess Lockheart could preside...if his memory ever returned

Not A Bear fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Mar 23, 2015

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