Who taught DADA before Quirrell?

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No: HPFGUIDX 138261

Ersatz Harry wrote:
> Perhaps this has been dealt with way back in the archives somewhere,
> but I found myself wondering about this today and went back to SS/PS
> to see if Quirrell's predecessor was mentioned.  No such professor 
was
> named as far as I could find in a quick pass through the book.

> snip<


 LoonyLunaLupin:
    
      I cannot find any canon regarding Quirrel's predeccesor either 
but I think that JKR may have been hinting that Quirrel had been 
around several years because both staff and the older students in 
PS/SS seemed to be familiar with him in the beginning of Harry's 
first year . However, if Quirrel did stick around for more than one 
year than there must be a reason that the DADA curse did not affect 
him. 
      "Oh, he [Voldemort] definately wanted the Defense Against the 
Dark Arts Job" said Dumbledore " The aftermath of our meeting proved 
that . You see, we have not been able to keep a Defense Against the 
Dark Arts teacher for longer than a year since I refused the post to 
Voldemort." (HBP, p. 446, Am. edition)
      So, maybe Voldemort lifted his own curse on the DADA job to 
give his servant more than one year to do his dirty work at Hogwarts. 
Assuming, of course that he was in Voldemort's employ when he was 
firsthired at Hogwarts.
IMO it was not Voldemort's curse that killed Quirrel, it was 
Voldemort himself. 


LoonyLunaLupin.