DADA Position Cursed Because of Potter's Death?

[Dave]

No: HPFGUIDX 70751

  <snip>
  A.G. wrote:
> He could simply 
> have been a student, who was a voracious learner from books not 
> unlike Hermione.  Then, he continued with advance degrees or
training 
> or even another career.  Maybe he was a librarian or even worked
for 
> Gringotts.  He then decided that for his career to advance he
needed 
> to travel around the world gaining valuable experience.  So he took
a 
> year off.
 <snip>
> I think he was 
> only a one year teacher because of the way Snape and others relate
to 
> him.  I mean really if he had been there for over 10 years they
would 
> have been alot more concerned when he started behaving weird, 
> stuttering, etc.  They also would have known what kind of magic he 
> was capable of and suspected him when he cursed Harry and broom at 
> the Quidditch match.  I just feel like Quirrel was new to the
school 
> and position.  Hagrid could simple have been referring to knowing 
> Quirrel while he was a student.  

  Now me-
  You present a good counter argument however, you imply that the
teachers at the school knew him when he was a student.  This nullifies
your point about him being just a one year teacher because your main
argument for this is that the others do not know him.  IMO it is
possible that he left his teaching post for one year and returned
nervous.  The only thing he did that might have seemed strange that
ties to canon is become extremely nervous, perfectly understandable
given what Hagrid says happened to him (SS 71).  If there is any other
evidence
of strange behavior witnessed by the teaching staff, please let me
know.
   -SD