DADA Position - Quirrell and 1-year Curse

[Heather]

No: HPFGUIDX 133425

Which would satisfy the curse. Excellent analysis. This fits much better to me than that he 
taught another subject before that. Thanks!

Heather

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lindsay <sunflowerlaw at g...> wrote:
> 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
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> On 7/19/05, makemeatree <joi_foley at h...> wrote:
> > "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:
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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.
> > 
> > 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'.
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> > ..j.
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