DADA

[Evilonewon at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25412

In a message dated 08/30/2001 10:17:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com writes:


> Questions:  
> 
> 1.  Do you think Quirrell was a good teacher until he took a year 
>     off?  
> 

I think that Quirrell was a book teacher.  He probably knew the textbook 
forwards, backwards, and upside down.  Hagrid tells us in PS/SS that Quirrell 
was a good teacher but without experience.  But I think that Quirrell at 
least knew the subject matter well enough so that his students could defend 
themselves against the dark arts if need be.  DADA probably wasn't one of 
everyone's favourite classes, but an "easy A".  It probably consisted mainly 
of answering questions out of a text book.  In my opinion, Quirrell was just 
a filler.  He could teach DADA well enough to protect students because 
Voldemort was gone and the Death Eaters in Azkaban or hiding, but if 
Voldemort came back, you probably wouldn't want him as the DADA teacher as he 
had no real fighting experience. 

> 2.  Did Dumbledore *really* agree to the 4th years being taught about
>     the Unforgivable Curses? 
> 

I think that Dumbledore *did* want the 4th years to learn the Unforgivable 
Curses, because he knew that Voldemort was getting stronger and was likely to 
attack Harry again.  He would want Harry, Hermione, and Ron to be prepared 
since they seem to run in to Voldemort quite a bit.  And since Moody is and 
Ex-Auror, who better, and who safer to teach Harry and co. the Unforgivable 
curses, in Dumbledore's opinion.

> 3.  I know we've discussed this before, but there are some newcomers, 
>     so...why would Crouch-as-Moody teach them how to fight Imperious? 
> 

This has actually puzzled me a bit, so I'd like to hear what everyone else 
thinks, but I think that Crouch-as-Moody number one, wanted to see if any of 
them *could* resist it, and two, wanted to maintain his disguised.  He was 
supposed to teach them how to fight it, if he didn't, Dumbledore might get 
suspicious.  And it could have just been a plot devise by J. K. to allow 
Harry to fight the Imperious at the end.  
~ Corinne

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        "Gods protect me, you're going to die a virgin," he whispered.  "What 
say we find a nice private haystack and take care of that?" ~ Cleon to Kel in 
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Pern" by Anne McCaffrey, and "Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging" by 
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