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What’s The Reason Why Albus Dumbledore Hired Gilderoy Lockhart?

Gilderoy Lockhart was the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, book 2 of the HP series by J.K. Rowling. But we all know how incompetent Lockhart really is and it’s easily seen in the way he acts and carries himself so how come headmaster Albus Dumbledore decided to hire him?

What reason did Albus Dumbledore have to hire Gilderoy Lockhart?

Simon (&SimeyC):

Albus Dumbledore always seems to do things for a reason - there are several ‘hires’ he makes that don’t seem to make sense, but when you see the full picture, Harry wouldn’t have ultimately succeeded without these teachers in his life - perhaps J K Rowling gave Dumbledore a little too much 'foresight’ though …

How does hiring Gilderoy Lockhart help Harry Potter?

Freya Yuki:

I agree with what you said about Dumbledore having way too much foresight. There are many things he does that doesn’t make sense at all like deciding to hire Lockhart. It’s also hard to see exactly how this decision (having Lockhart as a DADA teacher) could have helped Harry in any way.
Isn’t it highly unlikely that Harry learned anything from Lockhart? And, when Harry and Ron brought Lockhart with them to help with the basilisk, wasn’t Lockhart more trouble than he was worth? After all, the guy tried to erase the memories of the 2 and he didn’t end up helping them at all (since Harry was the one who had to deal with the basilisk and the diary pretty much all by himself).

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Results of the Hermione Granger Smart Student Poll

In the post entitled “How Come No One Else Knows About Remus Lupin Being a Werewolf?”, I added an Opinion Stage poll.

For reasons that I’ll talk about in another post on another one of my blogs, I’ve decided to delete the Opinion Stage poll and replace it with one from SurveyMonkey instead.

The poll in question was created on 19 July 2015.

On my dashboard on the Opinion Stage site, the statistics page for this poll looks like this:

New Poll

This is the new “Is Hermione Granger the only intelligent/smart student in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?” poll from SurveyMonkey:

Your Thoughts and Opinions

What about you? What does everyone else think about all of this? Feel free and welcome to share your thoughts and opinions by liking and/or reblogging this post, replying to this post, leaving a comment below, or by answering the poll.

I’ve also written more about Hermione Granger in the following posts:

Why Did Hermione Granger Lie About The Troll?
Why Hermione Granger Is Always With The Weasley Family?
Why Hermione Granger Decided To Brew Polyjuice Potion In Myrtle’s Bathroom?
Was Hermione Granger Out Of Character In Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets?

*Notes:

Hermione Granger pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
Text was added to the Hermione pic using Canva
The rest of the pics are screenshots from my Opinion Stage account

22 August 2018 08:30 am Why Did Albus Dumbledore Leave Baby Harry Potter?

The full title of this post is “Why did Albus Dumbledore leave baby Harry Potter on the doorstep of the Dursleys’ house?”

In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, book 1 of the HP series by J.K. Rowling, we found out that Headmaster Dumbledore decided to leave baby Harry on the doorstep of his relatives’ house after his parents, James Potter and Lily Evans, died.

Dumbledore explained that he decided to leave Harry with Vernon, Petunia, and Dudley Dursley because of the blood wards.

why did hogwarts headmaster albus dumbledore leave baby harry potter on the doorstep of the dursleys' house instead of bringing him inside?

IMHO, I think he could have gone with some other way to keep Potter safe. I talk more about this here and here.

The question though is how come Albus Dumbledore couldn’t even be bothered to tell the Dursleys himself that he wanted Harry to live with them now?

He was already right there in front of their house. How come he couldn’t even knock and spare a few minutes to explain the situation to them?

Keep reading 3 May 2018 10:00 am Comments For What Albus Dumbledore Should Have Done To Protect The Sorcerer’s Stone?

The following are the comments from this post I wrote about “What Albus Dumbledore Should Have Done to Protect the Sorcerer’s Stone?” from back when it used to be published on HubPages.

Keep reading 6 December 2018 08:00 am

Results of the Snape’s Sorcerer’s Stone Trap Poll

In the post entitled 3 Problems With Professor Snape’s Trap to Protect the Sorcerer’s Stone, I added an Opinion Stage poll.

For reasons that I’ll talk about in another post on another one of my blogs, I’ve decided to delete the Opinion Stage poll and replace it with one from SurveyMonkey instead.

The poll in question was created on 22 Nov 2014.

On my dashboard on the Opinion Stage site, the statistics page for this poll looks like this:

New Poll

This is the new “Do you think that Professor Snape’s trap to protect the Sorcerer’s Stone was useless?” poll from SurveyMonkey:

Your Thoughts and Opinions

So, what about you? What do you think about all this? Feel free and welcome to share your thoughts and opinions by answering the poll or by leaving a comment below.

I’ve also written more about the traps to protect the Sorcerer’s Stone as well as the Philosopher’s Stone itself in the following posts:

Harry Potter Plotholes: What Albus Dumbledore Should Have Done to Protect the Sorcerer’s Stone?
Why Didn’t Albus Dumbledore Use a Fake Sorcerer’s Stone?
Why the Traps Protecting the Sorcerer’s Stone Are Useless?
4 Problems With Professor Flitwick’s Trap to Protect the Sorcerer’s Stone

Note: As mentioned in this post, I’m now trying to finish working on all the articles listed on the drafts page of this blog after a very long hiatus from Tumblr. This particular post is one of those drafts. The post date is listed as Jul 11th, 2018 10:47:45am.

*Notes:

Severus Snape pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
Text was added to the Snape pic using Canva
The rest of the pics are screenshots from my Opinion Stage account

23 April 2018 09:30 am Poll Results For What Albus Dumbledore Should Have Done To Protect The Sorcerer’s Stone?

I added a poll to this post I wrote about “What Albus Dumbledore Should Have Done to Protect the Sorcerer’s Stone?” The article used to be published on HubPages (it was first posted on on 10/01/2014), but I decided to move it to my Potter Plotholes Tumblr blog instead.

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Keep reading 20 September 2018 07:30 am 1 Way to Get Umbridge to Teach DADA Class Properly

The full title is “1 Way to get Dolores Umbridge to actually teach Defense Against the Dark Arts”. As in actually teach the Hogwarts students how to use spells, how to fight, and how to defend themselves instead of just sitting on their desks reading.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, book 5 of the HP series by J.K. Rowling, Dolores Umbridge became the Defense Against the Dark arts teacher in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

But she’s really more interested in telling the students that the Dark Lord Voldemort hadn’t returned than in teaching.

Harry Potter tried to convince Professor Umbridge that he wasn’t lying and that Voldemort really was back.

But she kept denying this and insisting that the students didn’t need to learn how to fight because there was no danger.

When she said that, how come no one said anything about Sirius Black? The Ministry of Magic knew about him and they consider him a danger, right?

Keep reading 28 August 2018 09:00 am How Come No One Else Figured out Remus Lupin Was a Werewolf?

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Agree @harry-potter-fans394. I also find it hard to believe that no one else ever figured out that Remus Lupin was a werewolf.

This doesn’t seem to make sense especially when considering the fact that Lily Evans and the Ravenclaws were said to be smart.

how come no one else ever figured out that remus lupin was actually a werewolf?

And what about the rest of the Hogwarts students from the other houses? Wasn’t there at least one person who noticed something strange about Lupin?

What about the other Gryffindors who interacted with him or students who shared classes with him? Didn’t they notice anything?

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What does everyone else think about this? Feel free and welcome to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment or by answering the poll below.

Keep reading 10 July 2018 11:29 pm Results Of The Harry Potter Winning The Triwizard Tournament Poll

I’ve written a lot of posts about the Triwizard Tournament. One was this article, which talks abut why Harry Potter tried so hard to win said competition.

This didn’t seem to make sense because Harry made no secret of the fact that he didn’t want to join, and he was adamant that didn’t put his name in the Goblet of Fire.

If Potter had no interest in the tournament, and he was competing only because of the so-called magical binding contract, then how come he did his best to win?

How come he exerted so much effort in trying to get through each of the three tasks? Wouldn’t it have been better, not to mention safer, if he’d just done the bare minimum to satisfy the contract?

What if he didn’t bother to use his broom to help him get the egg from the dragon in the first task? What if he didn’t bother using gillyweed in the second task? What if he didn’t bother trying to get through the maze in the third task?

What if he just made a token effort in all the tasks? For example, in the third task, what if he just tried running around the maze a few times, making a show of attempting to find the way out.

When Harry fails, what if he just leaves it at that? He tried to get the cup, and he didn’t succeed. Shouldn’t he be okay with that?

Anyway, I added an Opinion Stage poll to the post in question. For reasons that I’ll talk about in another post on another one of my blogs, I’ve decided to delete the Opinion Stage poll and replace it with one from SurveyMonkey instead. The poll in question was created on 26 Sep 2014.

Keep reading 1 July 2018 05:11 pm

Harry potter: hogwarts mystery. Its available on iphones and Android. (Android has to be over 4.4, i dunno about iphones).

Hi there. Thanks for the info :-). Will check out this Harry Potter mystery game when I have more time.

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3 July 2018 09:00 am

Also it's recommended you have facebook to link to because the game does glitch and might start you over. With the fb, its saved and you'll have something to come back to

Hello :-). Thanks for the additional info about the Harry Potter Hogwarts mystery game.

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