Timeline for How could Dumbledore hire Hagrid when he wasn't Headmaster?
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| Sep 6, 2014 at 17:27 | comment | added | Lexible | @Nicholas You misunderstand. I felt that DVK was being uncharitable to Rowling (not to mention inaccurate in light of the accepted answer). I agree with your sentiments. | |
| Sep 5, 2014 at 12:43 | comment | added | Nicholas | @Lexible How do you distinguish "awful at maths" and "does not care about maths" from "made one mistep in the juggling of hundreds of variables no human could reasonably keep straight?" I've never been published, but I wrote a novel myself. After hundreds of readings I still find little errors like this here and there. These aren't real people, and in trying to create something that complex there are more boundary conditions than anyone could tackle without spending far more time than is practical...perhaps not even then. | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 23:40 | comment | added | Möoz | Because he's Batman... I mean Dumbledore! | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 15:28 | comment | added | Gusdor | @Lexible it is possible to care about failure but not recognise the causes. | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 12:08 | vote | accept | TenthJustice | ||
| Sep 4, 2014 at 8:36 | comment | added | tobyink | I've not read these books myself, but this doesn't necessarily seem inconsistent. One possibility might be that the headmaster makes HR decisions for teaching staff, but may have delegated responsibility for non-teaching staff. Another possibility is that Dumbledore didn't technically hire Hagrid, but persuaded the then headmaster to hire him, leading Hagrid to credit Dumbledore for hiring him. Yet another possibility is that in the period of time between your two quotes hiring policies changed, but at the time Dumbledore hired Hagrid, the headmaster didn't have exclusive powers over HR. | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 8:29 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/507445246511558656 | ||
| Sep 4, 2014 at 5:55 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage♦ | @lexible I think once your awful at numbers in general (e.g. you can take two arbitrary events and intuit an appropriate numerical difference in time) then it's hard to care as when things slip through the cracks you don't notice, so no care of required. | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 3:22 | answer | added | ISAE | timeline score: 89 | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 3:01 | comment | added | Lexible | @DVK How would you distinguish "awful at maths" from "does not care about maths?" | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 1:57 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | Repeat after me: "JKR is awful at maths"! | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 0:42 | comment | added | TenthJustice | Also, before anyone claims that its possible that Dippet retired that year, Tom Riddle apparently asked him for a job after he graduated school two years later. | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 0:31 | history | asked | TenthJustice | CC BY-SA 3.0 |