[HPFGU-Movie] Re: quirrell-new?

[Amanda Lewanski]

"Tandy, Heidi" wrote:

> It never says in PS/SS that it's Quirrell's first year teaching,
> although Percy's line was changed slightly for no discernable reason.
> I always had the impression that he'd been teaching at Hogwarts for at
> least a year before Harry started- probably from Hagrid's description
> that he's "scared of the students"-how could he know that if there
> hadn't been
> discussion of how he taught the students?

Hagrid says, "He was fine while he was studyin' outta books but then he
took a year off to get some firsthand experience.......never been the
same since."
This clearly implies to me that Quirrell's been teaching there for at
least two years--he had to have been there a bit to have taken a year
off, eh?

--Amanda


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