Quirrell's Tenure (Again)

[siriuskase]

No: HPFGUIDX 44103

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "animagi_raven" <niemuthervin at w...> wrote:

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

What you have posted is closest to what I believe, I think that prior
to Harry's first year, Quirrel was at Hogwarts but not in the role of
DADA instructor.  So Snape misses out on the DADA appointment a
minimum of 4 times.  

HP Year 4 to Moody, HPY3 to Lupin, HPY2 to ?, HPY1 to Quirrel (No HP0,
this is consistent with other chronological schemes)
During HPY-1, Q was teaching something, maybe DADA, so that his
(faked) nervousness could be noticed.  HPY-2 would be the year off for
advanced studies, and then HPY-3 would have Quirrel at Hogwarts.

I like the idea of the DADA curse coinciding so neatly with Harry's
time at Hogwarts because it is evidence that Harry might be the cause
of this.  It goes well with the idea that a trouble attracter can
easily be mistaken for a trouble maker.

Sirius Kase