DADA curse is to "bring out the worst" in people

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dan Feeney" <dark30 at v...> 
wrote:
> And that's it. It says so right in the last book. Quirrell - 
> subservience and avarice

Im not 100% about this, but as far as I'm aware Quirrel had been in 
the position of DADA prof for a while, and it was only when he 
returned from travelling having encountered Voldemort that he became 
the character we find in PS/SS.  If this is true, the teaching 
position itself was not the reason fo Q's behaviour.

>, Lockhart vanity,

Well clearly from the scene in Flourish and Blotts Lockhart was 
always a vain so and so!!

> Lupin wanting to be liked 
> and accepted (says Rowling)

IMO the fact that Lupin lived most of his life on the fringes of 
society was the reason behind his longing for acceptance *not* the 
DADA position.

>, Crouch Jr. using others
 
Well, it wasnt really a desire to use others that made him do what 
he did.  He was one of V's most loyal DE's, something tells me he 
had a fudamental flaw in his personality long before Hogwarts! 

> Umbridge, authoritanism.

She's just evil anyway... she owns a quill that makes the  user 
write in their own blood!!! (I dont know why but this quill put me 
in mind of the hand Draco picked up in that shop on knockturn Ally)

> Can you imagine a more 
> vituperative Snape?

Yes that would be a rather frightening sight!

Basically, I dont actually think the DADA professorship (is this a 
word?!!!) is cursed, the people who filled it were just unsuitable 
(with the exception of Lupin who resigned because of other people's 
narrow mindedness).

Mary