[HPforGrownups] Re: Who taught DADA before Quirrell?

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 138505


Saturday, August 20, 2005, 9:10:07 PM, ag0991 wrote:

a> So, maybe Voldemort lifted his own curse on the DADA job to 
a> give his servant more than one year to do his dirty work at Hogwarts. 
a> Assuming, of course that he was in Voldemort's employ when he was 
a> firsthired at Hogwarts.

I always assumed he was already a teacher, based on this bit:

"Oh, he seemed the very chance I had been dreaming of... for he
 was [as opposed to *would be*] a teacher at Dumbledore's school..."

     -- Voldemort's graveyard speech, _GoF_.

Of course, maybe he was teaching *something else* before Voldemort
recruited him -- CoMC maybe?  (I always wondered why they show him
holding a large Iguana in class in that scene in the first movie.)

-- 
Dave

P.S. Just had an afterthought: If the original "Plan A" was to steal
the Stone from Gringotts, then it doesn't matter whether Quirrell was
already a Hogwarts teacher or not...  But then, does that render the
above quote a Flint?