My new favorite line from HBP

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 141586

"lily_paige_delaney" wrote:
>
> Chapter 8 - Snape Victorious
> 
> Dumbledore has just announced that Snape is the new DADA teacher.
> 
> Harry:
> 
> "Well there's one good thing" he said savagely.  "Snape'll be gone 
by 
> the end of the year."
> 
> "What do you mean?" asked Ron
> 
> "That job's jinxed.  No one's lasted more than a year...Quirrell 
> actually died doing it.  Personlly, I'm going to keep my fingers 
> crossed for another death..."
> 
> I just love this bit and then Hermione's outraged reaction!

Finwitch:

You know, it's curious how these things go. Like the 2nd and the 3rd 
book, Harry misses the Sorting.

In the first book (Harry mentions Quirrell) - they hear this *rumour* 
about the job being jinxed. However, I wonder about Harry's sudden 
*certainty* that it really is jinxed. He like takes it for granted! 
It's not until later that Dumbledore tells Harry that 'We've never 
managed to keep a DADA teacher more than a year since I refused the 
post to Lord Voldemort.'

But even during the start-of-term-feast Harry knows beyond doubt that 
the jinx is there. It's *very* curious. Until that moment, it was a 
mere rumour to Harry. Why this sudden certainty?

Finwitch