DADA Position - Quirrell and 1-year Curse

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No: HPFGUIDX 133357

"jakedjensen" :

> I always thought that Q had been in the position for at least
> a year prior. Even if Q has taught somewhere else before, how
> would Hagrid know that his is scared of his students? In 
> addition, no one talks about how Q is a new instructor in book
> one. Usually, the new instructor is picked apart by the students
> at the beginning of each year.


I re-read this bit, too. I guess....it's more of a mistake, really, 
but I didnt have to give it much thought to rationalize it.

It could be two things, or both, maybe:

It could be that Quirrell was a student at Hogwarts, and then took 
the position, but before doing so, studied, traveled, got posessed 
by LV, etc.

And/or it could be that Quirrell was a teacher at Hogwarts, 
teaching something else, and that yr was just his first yr teaching DADA. This would explain why people knew him already, knew his personality previous to the traveling, and why students didn't talk 
too much about him being 'new'.

..j.