What are Dark Arts?

[Hitomi]

No: HPFGUIDX 91082

Constance Vigilance wrote: 
> Actually, Quirrell was a fine DADA teacher. We have Hagrid and 
> Percy's word on that. He was a bit timid of his subject and his 
> students, but we never hear that those things made him less than a 
> competent teacher. I'm a firm believer that he had plenty of 
skills 
> in the Defense of the Dark Arts and conducted his classes 
> competently, or we would have heard complaints from Harry and Co.

Hitomi:
I am Speedy-Reply-Girl!  I'm not arguing with you, he might have had 
skills in DADA, I was just referring to the trio saying his classes 
were a bit of a joke in Book 1, and Hermione saying Harry has always 
done better in DADA than her, and tested higher when they actually 
sat the test and had a competent teacher.  He first started scoring 
higher than her in third year, so by that logic, Hermione does not 
see Quirrell as a competent teacher.  And even if he had skills, if 
he was too timid to actually *teach*, which he seemed to be, then 
they wouldn't have done much good.  But most of this is 
speculation.  And it really doesn't matter, considering he's dead, 
but those were the references I was referring to.  Though your 
argument is more than valid.  Though I still don't think Harry 
actually started to learn anything in DADA until his third year.  
Since then, however, he has caught up marvelously :-)

~ Hitomi