Quirrell's Tenure (Again)

[animagi_raven]

No: HPFGUIDX 44094

Just about everyone in the house has said this but ~Phyllis said it 
last in post #444030:
> "They [HRH] had never yet had a Defense Against the Dark Arts 
> teacher who had lasted more than three terms" (UK ed., p. 155).  

Do we all agree now that 3 terms = 1 year?  Good.  Starting from 
there...

I would like to add a new proposal to this esteemed committee:
Quirrell may have been young and just `on the staff.' Filling in for 
professors when they were sick.  Sort of like a teaching assistant.  
Then he get the assignment to the DADA position because the previous 
professor *only lasted a year*.  When he gets the appointment he 
decides that he is lacking first-hand experience.  He goes on his 
trip, meets LV, and brings him home in a box (being ordered to under 
an Imperious?).  Quirrell is too late to get the Stone and LV (a 
little more powerful by this time thanks to unicorn blood?) decides 
to crawl in with Quirrel.

I like this argument because not only Quirrell but also the previous 
professor (or more?) have only lasted a year.  This makes the 
position seem cursed by Harry's second year – which is when they had 
trouble getting a professor.  How would other candidates have thought 
that the position was cursed if previous professors had lasted more 
than a year?

If we go back in the archives I am absolutely positive that someone 
else must have come up with this theory before.  Any of the original 
members want to take credit for this or nominate someone?

Animagi_Raven  who promises to go light on the parentheses next post.