[HPforGrownups] Flitwick as DADA professor?

[Suzanne Chiles]

No: HPFGUIDX 90895

JustCarol said:

>
> I was rereading OoP last night and realized that the teacher giving
> the DADA exam to Severus and MWPP in "Snape's Worst Memory" was
> Professor Flitwick! If he was the DADA professor twenty-one years
> earlier, why is he teaching Charms now? Granted, he seems much more
> suited to teach Charms than DADA, but still, why the annual search for
> a DADA professor (setting aside the possibility that Snape could teach
> it) when Flitwick is still available? Why not give the position back
> to Flitwick and find another qualified Charms teacher? That would
> almost certainly be easier than finding a good DADA teacher (other
> than Lupin), which seems to be nearly impossible.
>
> 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.)

Given that it was the OWLs test, I had supposed that Flitwick was there as a
procter for the test, and not as the professor for that area. After all, in
Harry's OWL tests, I don't believe that any of his professors were present.

Suzanne