Who taught DADA before Quirrell?

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 138177

Ersatz Harry
>>So I see multiple possibilities here:

(1) I simply missed something (this is probably the most likely);

(2) JKR goofed a little bit in the writing of SS/PS; or

(3) JKR did not really settle on the one DADA professor per year idea
until *after* writing SS/PS.

Am I missing any possibilities?  Anyone have thoughts on the three above?

CathyD now:
I questioned this as well.  Percy seems to know Professor Quirrell at the beginning feast of PS so obviously he has been there before.  I think, JMO, that Quirrell taught for a year, then went off to Albania to get some first hand experience, found Vapormort, then came back to teach another year.  Who the teacher was the year before Harry arrived at Hogwarts, we have never been told.




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