Flitwick as DADA professor?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90892

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Saitaina" <saitaina at w...> wrote:
> Carol wrote:
> 
> <The only explanation I can think of is that
> something happened to the
> real DADA teacher during Severus' fifth year
> and Flitwick was filling
> in for him or her during OWLs--rather like
> Professor Grubbly-Plank
> filling in for Hagrid. (Really, she ought to
> be given the job
> permanently, but that's a topic for another
> post.)>
>
Saitaina: 
> Flitwick also could have wished to move into
> another field of study.  Many tears I know
> have switched courses over the years, some
> they just took originally to get a job and
> later switched to something that was their
> true passion.  Those with duel (or more)
> expertise can easily switch between them as
> the job market calls for.  A history teacher
> who is fluent in a foreign language can take
> on both roles as needed for a job, perhaps
> the same is true for Flitwick.

Carol:
But that still doesn't explain why DD doesn't ask Flitwick to switch
back to his original job to eliminate the yearly and often disastrous
search for a new DADA teacher. As I said, it would be a lot easier to
find a qualified Charms teacher to replace Flitwick than yet another
candidate for the ostensibly jinxed DADA position. Why hire Lockhart
or Mad Eye or even Lupin if you already have Flitwick? (Umbridge
wouldn't have been there, either, if DD hadn't supposedly been unable
to find a new teacher.) And for that matter, why not put Flitwick in
the DADA job when Snape first applied for it and was given Potions
instead? He'd hardly keep applying for the DADA post every year if it
were competently filled by his own former professor.

Not to get sidetracked here, but I also wonder when and why Quirrell
was first hired. Was it at the same time as Snape? I get the idea that
he's at least a few years younger than Snape and that someone else
held the job before him, but if so it couldn't have been Flitwick if
there was a DADA vacancy at the time Snape was hired.

Carol