Post by Kitty279 on Jan 19, 2016 1:49:31 GMT -5
Does Dumbledore actually give a fuck about his students? Seriously, fucking hell. Schools are for learning and teaching, they are not for hiding valuable objects or revealing people as frauds.
Yes there are things you can learn from a bad teacher, but none of those things should be learnt during an exam year.
Well, if you want my honest opinion, then Dumbledore did treat Hogwarts not as a school, but his private fiefdom, laboratory for social experiments, war playground and breeding ground for dark wizards.
Really, despite my hatred for her, Umbridge's idea of going back to the basics, which Quirrell & Lockhart didn't cover, was a fairly reasonable one. Hardly any of the students would have done any studying on their own, so wouldn't have been learning what they were supposed to learn during those two years. Going back and covering what was on the curriculum for those two years was actually a sensible idea, even if she did go about it in the wrong way.
At least they had Remus in the meantime, and the false Moody, though a DE, was at least a good teacher, too. Back to the basics would be a good idea - if it was used to find out where they are lacking, and then to bring them up to speed. But only reading about magical theory all year in a class that normally would make a lot of 'foolish wand waving' necessary?? It was a sure-fire way to guarantee that lots of people fail DADA altogether - which in Fudge's mind should be great, because then there is no one who can endanger his throne. I am still surprised nothing was said about people failing their exams by the dozen.
Oh, and while we are at this topic: JKR said that the Ministry is funding Hogwarts. Sooo ... Hogwarts is over 1000 years old, but the Ministry came into being in the late 1600's, according to her own words. So, how did the Ministry fund the school before that? To me, the Wizards' Council as the predecessor of the Ministry does sound more like a group of people deciding on the direction of things, but not being paid as servants of the magical world like the Ministry is. And where would they have gotten the money? Now I want to know if once the people had to pay for themselves - which would probably mean that many couldn't afford to send their children to school - and the Ministry did that only some hundred years ago, or if JKR as usual forgot already what she had said/written before.
