Flitwick as DADA professor?

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No: HPFGUIDX 90919

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67"
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Saitaina" <saitaina at w...>
wrote:
> > Carol wrote:
> > > 
> 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

Sue B:

Good question. I don't have the book in front of me, but you are
probably right about 
Quirrell's relative youth - I didn't get  the impression he'd been in
the job all that long, 
because I'd swear that someone mentioned it was already "jinxed" by
then. However, 
didn't it mention somewhere that he'd been fairly competent before
wandering into 
that forest and being pounced on by LV? Possibly ambitious and
arrogant and then - 
wham! Turban time. The question I'd have is, even if nobody knew what
was going on, 
why didn't DD  give him a nice comfy room like Trelawney and hand the
job - at least 
temporarily - to Flitwick (who might actually *prefer* Charms, ever
thought of that? In 
the real world, teachers are often stuck with subjects they don't
care for because of 
qualifications they got when they were young and inexperienced and
which are now 
needed. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you want to).