Theory on the DADA-post's jinx

[yolandacarroll]

No: HPFGUIDX 85418

Steve wrote:
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> I suspect that once Harry is gone from the 
> school, the 'magnet'that has been drawing 
> bad luck to the job will be gone too. 

Along the lines of Harry being the jinx on the DADA teachers, we 
don't know how long Quirrell taught DADA, before PS/SS, however I 
suspect it was for at least couple of school years, because Hagrid 
said Quirrell was fine "while he was teaching out of books", then he 
left to get some experience defending DADA.

So Quirrell must have taught for a year at least, left to get some 
experience, maybe during the summer, then returned to teach another 
year.  I say he returned to teach another year, because Hagrid 
comments on Quirrell's change sound like they are about the past year 
(or years).

I think Quirrell was there at Hogwarts for at least two years before 
Harry. This means of course that Quirrell actually had the job for 
more than a year, so the jinx hadn't started yet.

Jen Reese wrote:
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> (And I'm still not convinved Quirrell's conversion 
> was completely his doing--LV seems to be very 
> *convincing* when needed....). 
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Seeing as Voldemort was in need of a host, I imagine that he was 
very "convincing".

Quirrell could have agreed because he wanted what Voldemort was 
offering or he could have really been an unfortunate pawn in all of 
this.  Earlier in PS/SS, he protests what he has to do, but then at 
the end, he brags about finding Voldemort and having him as an 
ally/master.  

The obvious answer is that Voldemort took him over more and more, so 
that by the end he was completely in step with Voldemort which would 
coincide with the unfortunate pawn theory.

Hogwarts may have had a decent good DADA teacher before Voldemort 
came along.

Of course, that would make Voldemort the jinx not Harry.

Like Harry said "trouble finds him", but ultimately where can all 
Harry's and the DADA teachers trouble be traced back... Voldemort.

Yolanda