While nothing can keep me from diving head first into the book...though I'm conceding to skip the midnight distribution because I'm starting out at 6am the next day to walk 10 miles in ugly heat...the NYTimes review has taken just the teeniest edge off my zeal.
I'm expecting ti be exhausted in the way that Harry's unrelenting whinging in GoF wore me out. Oh my. I do so love these characters...
Well, if you knew that the person would only last a year. . . who would you choose?
Also, what's his name from Chamber of Secrets wasn't a minion of evil, just incompetent and unscrupulous.
So in the HP-verse DADA profs are like Spinal Tap drummers?
sumi, I would choose specialists. A creatures person one year, a spells person another, etc, etc, so that, over 7 years, everyone would have learned from The Expert on each sub-topic.
So in the HP-verse DADA profs are like Spinal Tap drummers?
And owners of Sunnydale's magic shop.
Maybe he tried that and they wound up horribly dead and he didn't want to risk it. (Perhaps Lupin knew the risks when he took the job -- in fact I'm certain that both Mad-Eye and Lupin knew the risks because they're OotP members.)
I'm certain that both Mad-Eye and Lupin knew the risks because they're OotP members
Once I heard about the curse, I never assumed otherwise.
Hm, hire people you don't like occasionally and hope the curse takes them out?