"You've convinced me. When do you intend to have Mrs. Lovegood apply?"
Dumbledore took off his glasses, his tone gentle.
"Any time. She's very much looking forward to the job." Vaughn shrugged, clearly intending to leave the rest to someone else.
When it came to Hogwarts, he usually only proposed plans. Dumbledore would have to handle the procedures and put them into practice.
Dumbledore could do little about that. After all, Vaughn was nominally just a second-year student, while he himself was the Hogwarts Headmaster.
After nodding, Dumbledore suddenly asked pointedly, "Who is your next candidate after Pandora?"
Vaughn's gaze sharpened. He understood the other intention behind Dumbledore's probing question.
Dumbledore wanted to hand over all administrative matters concerning Defence Against the Dark Arts to him.
Although somewhat surprised, Vaughn had no objection. Many of his initiatives needed to revolve around Defence Against the Dark Arts anyway.
So, almost without thinking, Vaughn said, "What do you think of Remus?"
Dumbledore paused, then put his glasses back on and smiled. "An excellent choice! I'm glad you aren't being relentlessly radical."
In Dumbledore's view, compared with Isabella and Pandora, Lupin's approach could practically be described as "
gentle."
The Hogwarts students were only young witches and wizards, after all. They couldn't be kept constantly on edge. After two successive school years of being "whipped into shape" by Isabella and Pandora, they needed a professor with a relatively gentle teaching style to give them a breather.
Of course, that was only Dumbledore's reasoning, not Vaughn's original intention.
He had chosen Lupin not out of favoritism, but because Lupin had extensive experience fighting Death Eaters.
Isabella could get the students to stop foolishly waving their wands around in class and hone their skills through actual combat.
Pandora could bring greater variety to Defence Against