Flitwick as DADA professor?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90921

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.

Carol:
Actually LV says in GoF that he was young and gullible, at first
believing in good and evil but being easy to persuade that there's
only power. I'm paraphrasing, but he definitely said that Quirrell was
easy to bend to his will. (See my earlier post on kinds of
possession--his versus Ginny's.)

Sue B:
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).

Carol:
Oh, I definitely think that Flitwick prefers Charms to DADA. He has
fun in his class, and you have to be serious in DADA. 

All I'm saying is that if Flitwick can proctor the DADA exam
(including, presumably, its practical component) and grade the exam
papers, he can teach the course. And it would have saved a lot of
grief to ask him to teach it until a qualified permanent teacher could
be found.

The alternative is Snape, but for whatever reason, DD is withholding
it from him. So instead we get a possessed Voldie slave, an
incompetent egotist, a werewolf (nothing against Lupin, but he knows
he presents a danger to the students and staff), a paranoid auror who
gets Imperio'd and replaced by a certifiably insane Death Eater, and
(hem, hem!) a power hungry, sadistic bureaucrat. So, as Ron would say,
what is Dumbledore playing at? Just give the job to Flitwick, will
you? At least for now?

Carol