Voldemort's Resurrection WAS The Spying Game and the Shrieking Shack

[alhewison]

No: HPFGUIDX 39775

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "grey_wolf_c" <greywolf1 at j...> wrote:
> > Suzanne Chiles says:
> > > IIRC, Quirrel had the been the DADA teacher for some years and 
had
> > > been regarded as a very fine teacher. It was only after his 
> research
> > > trip to Albania that things went bad.
> > > 
> > > Zoë
> > 
> Grey Wolf replies:
> > We have been repeatedly told that the DADA teacher position has 
> been 
> > jinxed and that Snape has been after it for years. I always 
assumed 
> > that Quirrell had just come back from an extended visit to 
Albania 
> > (i.e. a year or more long), and that something had happened to 
the 
> > previous DADA teacher too. There may even be canon one way or the 
> > other. We'll have to relay on someone else for this matter, 
though, 
> > since I cannot remember at this moment if it's just my feeling or 
> > something more canonical. Any takers?
> 
> I agree that PS/SS could be read either as 'Quirrel's just got the 
> job' or 'Quirrel's been in the job for years and has just taken a 
> sabbatical', but in CoS it gets clarified by Hagrid:
> 
> "Gettin' very difficult ter find anyone fer the Dark Arts job....No 
> one's lasted long fer a while now." (CoS, UK paperback p.88)
> 
> Which implies Quirrell had only just got the job in PS/SS.

Actually, I disagree here, although I admit that canon is confusing. 
Quirrell is not introduced as a new teacher, which he probably would 
have been had he just taken up the post. Also, when Harry first meets 
Quirrell in the Leaky Cauldron Hagrid tells him that Quirrell *is* a 
teacher at Hogwarts, rather than he is going to be a teacher at 
Hogwarts. Finally, when Harry asks Percy who the teacher sitting next 
to Quirrell is, during the banquet, Percy says (memory here not 
verbatim), so you already know Professor Quirrell. This implies to me 
that Percy already knows Quirrell, which he probably wouldn't if 
Quirrell was just starting.

Ali