DADA Position - Quirrell and 1-year Curse

[jakedjensen]

No: HPFGUIDX 133491

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Lindsay <sunflowerlaw at g...> 
wrote:
> > 
> > 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.


I just looked at the text from HBP dealing with this (pp. 446) and 
here is the exact phrasing:

"You see, we have never been able to keep a Defense Against the Dark 
Arts teacher for longer than a year since I refused the post to Lord 
Voldemort."

In my mind, even if Q did teach a year, take a year off, then teach 
another year, they still kept him "longer than a year." They "kept 
him" for two years.

Jake