Why did Dumbledore groom Harry to die? How could they trust student safety to a werewolf?
And is Slytherin's hatred and distrust of the other houses justified? Keep watching to find out!
Former Death Eater or not, seeking out a job working with children to procure the power you
never had as a kid isn't a cute or defensible move. Fans tend to give Severus Snape a pass on
his questionable behavior as a teacher because he turns on Voldemort to become a double agent
for Dumbledore. Yet his motives to betray Voldemort have little to do with nobility.
Snape was angry that Voldemort killed Lily, but he was all too happy to let James and Harry die
to snag the one that got away for himself — that's not love. And just because he
saves Harry's life a few times doesn't excuse bullying a child because he looks like his dad.
And it's not just Harry that Snape lords over like a classroom bully who's still reliving his
glory days. Neville's boggart proves that he's more afraid of Snape than the woman
By Dumbledore's estimations, Sybill Trelawney has made precisely two real predictions during
her tenure at Hogwarts: The prophecy regarding Voldemort's vanquisher and
the "Prisoner of Azkaban" prophecy where she predicts the return of Peter Pettigrew.
"He who betrayed his friends at Hogwarts with murder shall break free!
Innocent blood shall be spilt!"
Given that Trelawney doesn't even remember her actual predictions,
she's either an intentional fraud who likes to toy with her students for dramatic effect,
or she's convinced herself to believe her own mind games.
Either way, she treats her students like pawns in a metaphysical experiment.
And she also emotionally abuses Hermione just because she's a bit of a know-it-all. Calling a
student's soul as dry as a book is pretty gross. If your student questions the legitimacy of your
subject, you don't lash out and eviscerate their self-confidence — they're children. Be an adult.
Sure, Remus Lupin [REE-muss LOO-pin] is hands-down the school's most competent
Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher that we see throughout the series, but why is he left
to howl at the moon on Hogwarts grounds at all? Having the guy hide in a tree during full moons
when he turns into a werewolf in a castle full of students is questionable judgment at best.
Lupin's wolfy characteristics certainly aren't his fault,
but for a couple of days out of the month, he shouldn't be anywhere near students — especially
not when the ever-vindictive Snape is in charge of his symptom-relieving potion. During transitions,
he should be in a safe, secluded space to protect himself and everyone around him.
Instead, both he and Dumbledore leave things to fate,
and Harry and his friends almost die for it. Lupin's situation is quite tragic,
given how little control he has over his own body, but that doesn't excuse him from bearing the
responsibility of ensuring his students' safety before he turns each month and loses all will.
The bar is pretty low for Hogwarts professors, but even educators like Slughorn leave a lot
to be desired. Sure, Slughorn is competent when you measure him against the dude who
wears Voldemort as a fashionable headpiece, but on his own, Slughorn's a pretty awful teacher.
Slughorn uses his students to feed his narcissism, taking credit for
their accomplishments and displaying them in his classroom like trophies that he personally won.
He even creates a creepy elite club for his star students.
Okay, we get it, Hogwarts' terrible safety track record makes open positions difficult to fill,
but you can't just hire terrible people because you can't fill a position.
Even Slughorn himself doesn't want to take the job. Someone really needs to
assist Dumbledore on the hiring process because his track record is pretty bad.
Albus Dumbledore made an alarming number of mistakes and oversights during his time at
Hogwarts. Still, none are quite as sinister as what he does to the wizarding world's golden
boy Harry Potter. In his calculated quest to defeat Voldemort, Dumbledore raises Harry
to be a martyr for the slaughter, while never being completely honest with him,
putting Harry in grave danger annually for reasons the boy never fully understands.
Harry risks his life time and time again to fix the mistakes of the negligent Hogwarts staff,
yet even when Dumbledore takes him on perilous Horcrux missions,
Dumbledore still keeps the young wizard in the dark. Probably because his master plan
requires Harry to die at the right time in order to destroy the last Horcrux.
It's frankly a shock that Harry even lives long enough to carry out that insane plan, but the fact
that Dumbledore secretly maneuvers Harry into sacrificing himself is also pretty shocking.
Despite the fact that Voldemort cursed the Defense Against the Dark Arts position,
Dumbledore still does little to no vetting when he fills the open position. Instead, he continually
hires incompetent or straight-up evil wizards to teach the school's most important subject.
As it stands, we've got professors dying, some acting as Voldemort's right-hand face,
and a narcissist who obliviates iconic wizards to steal their life story — just to name a few.
It's wild that Dumbledore is supposed to be the greatest wizard in his time,
yet he can't be bothered to lift a curse or come up with a clever way around it.
Hell, Cedric Diggory would still be alive if Dumbledore instilled some anti-polyjuice
potion measures to prevent identity theft in a magic school. Use your big brain, Dumbledore!
Apparently, the Forbidden Forest is only forbidden when professors
aren't hosting detention there. In "The Sorcerer's Stone," Harry, Ron, and Hermione
the four students get separated into groups to hunt down a unicorn killer in a cursed forest.
What the heck are these teachers thinking?!
The forest isn't the only esoteric punishment at the castle, though.
Filch reminisces about the good old days when he got to hang students up in the dungeons.
And there's also Dolores Umbridge, who enjoys making students write lines that
get carved into their skin with a sick quill. A charming slate of staff, huh?
With the level of House favoritism Hogwarts professors exhibit when they award or detract
points for the House Cup, the tradition is all but rigged. A few professors like McGonagall
seem to keep things fair, but even she shows her Gryffindor cards on occasion.
Snape is less than subtle about his determination to detract every possible point from Gryffindor
while awarding Slytherin points whenever he can — and he's not the only one.
"Are you incapable of restraining yourself,
or do you take pride in being an insufferable know-it-all?"
"He's got a point, you know?"
"Five points from Gryffindor."
However, Dumbledore gets the award for the worst case of points tampering we've ever seen.
It's bad enough when professors dole out unfair points throughout the year,
but Dumbledore needs to make a whole dramatic show of things. In "Sorcerer's Stone," Gryffindors are
dead last until Dumbledore baits and switches the celebrating Slytherins by publicly awarding Harry
a bunch of points for straight-up murdering Quirrell, Ron for playing a great game of
overdramatic chess, Hermione for being a cool witch, and Neville for standing up to his friends.
Of course, he does this after announcing Slytherin as the winner. No wonder Slytherins are always
so pissy - the headmaster of the school literally pits every house against them!
"Gryffindor wins the House Cup!"
In the Hogwarts professors' quest to put their students in as much peril as wizardly possible,
they put on a dangerous and occasionally deadly international tournament between teenaged martyrs.
Despite the original Triwizard Tournament's demise due to the death of teenagers,
the wizard schools decide that this is a swell time to bring
the tradition back in "Goblet of Fire." It might as well be "The Hunger Games!"
Based on what we know, it doesn't seem like the professors or headmasters do a single thing to
make it safer this go-around — and what do you know? Cedric Diggory pays the price with his life.
Sure, having three international schools compete in a tournament to learn about
different cultures and gain new experiences is a great idea. However, there doesn't need to be
a death component, with dragons and other dangerously unpredictable tasks to do so.
The tournament also leads to Dumbledore's most out-of-character moment in the film
"Harry, Did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire?!"
"No sir!" "Did you ask one of the
older students to do it for you?"
"No sir!" "You're absolutely sure?"
Despite his outrage in the movie, in the books Dumbledore already knows
that Harry isn't advanced enough to fool the Goblet's age barrier. Suffice to say,
it's not one of Dumbledore's best moments from the films, and the tournament is just as deadly as it
was in years past because the professors couldn't keep a tighter watch on things.
With a headmaster as experienced as Dumbledore,
you'd think that he'd be more than willing to take the lead on any investigative work when
all is not well at Hogwarts. Yet no matter how many times Harry, Ron, and Hermione
bring serious situations to the school’s attention, they brush it off. In the end,
the educators always leave a bunch of kids to do the dirty work of Hogwarts' negligent professors.
The Hogwarts teachers openly let their students fight their battles while rarely lifting a
finger to handle situations themselves. Why? Because of their ego trip, of course. If they
haven't noticed anything themselves, how on earth could something possibly be funky?
One time would be more than enough, but even Hogwarts' best professors like McGonagall
gaslight students about any serious concerns without ever doing anything substantial. When
it comes to the final battle, the students are somehow still taking charge when many of the
remaining professors don't do all that much to help out. Just look at the death toll of
students compared to professors. There are far too many crises at the school to begin with,
but why is there rarely a professor around when shady wizard drama is going down?
The professors continually say that Hogwarts is the safest place in the wizarding world — but
that assumption is precisely what causes them to frequently put students' lives
in danger by being complacent. Hiding a three-headed dog and the Sorcerer's
Stone in the castle was a major lack of judgment - and it was just one of many.
Sirius Black manages to infiltrate the school, Peter Pettigrew runs around as
the Weasleys' rat for years, and Death Eaters can stroll in whenever they want. If an old
map that a bunch of mischievous kids created can detect someone who's supposed to be dead,
why aren't more measures like that taken by actual professors?
For an impenetrable school, a whole lot of devious wizards manage to infiltrate.
How is this a safe school,
and why aren't the professors and its headmaster taking these breaches in security seriously?
How many students have to die before professors stop toting the "there's no safer place" tagline
and actually pay attention to what's happening around them? If Harry Potter — the world's most
oblivious wizard — notices a problem when the teachers don't, that's definitely a red flag.
Even the repetition of tragic historical events goes unbothered by the staff. At the first sign
of the Chamber's reopening, the school should be evacuated — let alone after multiple petrified
students are discovered. One wrong glance, and the school would have a dozen more Moaning Myrtles.
It's a miracle it takes so long before parents start pulling their kids from school.
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