DADA Curse-a way to get rid of Dumbledore?

[The Kirk]

No: HPFGUIDX 148871


> zgirnius:
> No, it does not work like Imperius, I wouldn't say. I believe that 
> the fact that the triggers for the climactic events of PoA occurred 
> on a full moon night can be attributed to the curse. It did not 
> Imperio Lupin into not drinking his potion, it just provided such a 
> great shock to him at the wrong time that he (understandably) forgot. 
> But it 'wanted' Lupin to skip a dose because it saw in his 
> lycanthropy the perfect means to raise a sufficiently big stink to 
> discredit Dumbledore for hiring him.
> 
> In Snape's case, if he's ESE!/OFH! and planned to serve Voldemort at 
> least in the murder of Dumbledore, the curse made it easy for him. 
> All he had to do was show up and say the magic words. If he's 
> OFH!/DDM! and didn't really want to kill Dumbledore for whatever OFH! 
> reasons/out of loyalty to Dumbledore, it forced his hand.

Me:
Sorry if thsi has been mentioned before. Haven't been on the list in
ages. . .
This reminds me of Riddle's diary. As a hocrux, it was able to
exercise some sort of power over those who read/wrote in it. When
Voldemort visited Hogwarts, ostensibly for the DADA position,
Dumbledore theorised that Voldemort intended to search Hogwarts for an
object belonging to one of the founders.
What if it was actually to drop something off? Perhaps the curse was
premeditated - he wanted to implement a curse within Hogwarts. He'd
need a cover story for being at Hogwarts in the first place, so he
goes along asking for a job. Either before or after meeting the
Headmaster he hides a freshly made horcrux, able to exercise a will of
its own, somewhere in the castle (the DADA teacher's office,
perhaps?). This horcrux is what has been preventing any of the DADA
teachers staying on more than a year. 

Highly fanciful and no canon, I know, but if there's a horcrux lurking
somewhere in Hogwarts, it gives him a good reason to spend a
substantial amount of time there in book 7.