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[Jorlem]

nemonowan wrote:

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Well, what else are you supposed to do with a cursed job that destroys
the lives of everyone who takes it? Especially since most competent
potential applicants presumably know of the curse and therefore refuse
to take the job? If the position has to be filled and is guaranteed
to ruin the life/reputation of the teacher, you may as well give the job
to an enemy.

You at least run remedial classes with a different name, clubs or extracurricular activities where your students can actually LEARN one of your core subjects.That is, if there actually is a curse that you tried and failed to remove.

Well, we don't know that that wasn't done for those in higher years.  Or if it had been planned, but was disrupted by the whole Chamber of Secrets thing.  All we know for sure is what Harry saw, and as a second year he wouldn't have likely seen or paid attention to the secondary study options provided to the upper years.
Heck, we don't know how long Dumbledore intended to keep Lockhart there.  For all we know, Dumbledore might have planned to publicly fire Lockhart before the winter holidays, so that the children would be talking about it during the vacation.  But the the Chamber was opened, Lucius and the Minister started putting pressure on him, and he wasn't able to follow through.
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