[HPforGrownups] Re: DADA Position - Quirrell and 1-year Curse

[Lindsay]

No: HPFGUIDX 133387

I believe I have a simple answer to this.

"He was fine while he was studying out of books but then he took a
year off ter get some
first-hand experience.... They say he met vampires in the Black
Forest, and there was a nasty bit o' trouble with a hag -- never been
the same since. Scared of the students, scared of his own subject..."
(pp. 70-71 US paperback)

Key words in that phrase are that he took a year OFF.

Which means, he taught one year, took a year off (and was filled by
someone else), then came back after being possessed.

So he taught two years, just not consecutively.

--Lawless



On 7/19/05, makemeatree <joi_foley at hotmail.com> wrote:
> "jakedjensen" :
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> It could be two things, or both, maybe:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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