thoughts on HBP

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OK, so, obviously I haven't gotten through all the posts yet so if I
reiterate something that has already been discussed to death, I'm sorry.

The first question I have that has been eating away at me is this quote:
"...never been able to keep a DADA teacher for longer than a year since I refused the post to LV." (Scholastic p446, Ch 20: LV's Request) but, what about Quirrel?  I'm pretty sure that Book one wasn't his first year, was it?  Sorry, if someone can figure this out it's really been bothering me.

The other thing that needs to be addressed is Snape.  I just can't
belive that DD was SO wrong.  There just has to be something more.  I
did wonder however if Snape somehow made a Horcrux from DD's murder. 
I'm not saying that he murdered DD purely to make a horcrux, but since we don't know the exact process of making one, how 'spur of the
moment' can it be?  

I also saw that no one had really mentioned the inferi and I for one
am really curious how they come about and what they actually do.

One thing also that made me think that JKR is a genius is the
Vanishing Cabinets and how we were introduced to one in CoS and I'm
assuming there was some off hand mention of Montague getting stuck in
one in OotP that none of us took notice of.  I also became aware of
how very close Harry got to being stuck in one.

I have many more thoughts jumping around in my head that don't make
sense even to me so I'll post some more later.  The main thing that I
liked about this book is all the humor in it, it made me laugh out
loud- "I am a Wizard, not a baboon waving a stick"- brilliant!  Or how in the presence of all the snogging and relationships the Gryf.
Password became abstinence!

Anyway, those are my two cents.

-Irka