[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: Book 6/7 prediction: Harry, Snape and DADA

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 66337


>
> --- Tim <tmarends at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > If Snape becomes the DADA teacher, that's the end of Snape.
> > It may
> > be a running joke in the series, but every year there's a new
> > DADA
> > teacher.  IF Snape becomes DADA in book 6, don't expect him to
> > be
> > there for book 7.
>
Stacy asked:
> This brings back to my mind a question that I've often had, but
> not while in front of a computer.  :)  Do we know anything about
> the DADA teachers before Harry started at Hogwarts?  Was it
> always a doomed position, or is this a relatively new
> phenomenon?  And, either way, why on earth would anyone, even
> Snape, want the position?  Perhaps he thinks he's immune to all
> of the bad things that have happened to DADA teachers in the
> last four years.

Kelly:
I was thinking on just this question today.  If Snape has been applying for
the DADA position fourteen years in a row, this could imply at first glance
that the position has needed to be filled every year.  The only thing I
think we know for sure, though, about past DADA teachers is what we hear in
PS/SS.  Quirrell was back after taking a year's leave of absence to get
first hand experience at defending himself against the Dark Arts.  So I put
forth that Quirrell was the DADA teacher two years before Harry's arrival at
Hogwarts.  Fred and George would have had him their first year and Percy in
his third.  Someone else filled in the DADA position for the year that
Quirrell was gone.  Because Quirrell felt the need to go and gain practical
experience in his subject field, this makes me think that he only taught it
that one year before going to Albania.  Wasn't he described as being young?
Anyway, this knowledge helps us to cover half of these fourteen years;
Harry's five years at Hogwarts and the two precedint his arrival.  So now we
need to fill in the other seven?  What happened to them?  I, for one, don't
plan to hold my breath waiting for the answer.

Kelly Grosskreutz
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