Hi Carol - question about your DADA curse theory

[mitchell]

No: HPFGUIDX 162210

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Constance Vigilance"
<ConstanceVigilance at ...> wrote:
>
> I've been in my coma so long that I'm behind the times on previous
> threads on the DADA curse.
>
> Part of my thesis is that that the "DADA curse" was a distraction
> (lie!) on the part of Dumbledore specifically to cover up the
> continued animatory status of Quirrell. The curse is fishy to me
> because first, there is no comment about it in Book 1. One would
> expect something like "Dumbledore has been having quite a bit of
> trouble over the past 40 years keeping someone in this post." You
> would think such a multi-decade pattern would be noticed, no?
>
> Secondly, there is no notice of Quirrell being new or new to an
> assignment in the first book. One must believe that he occupied
> that position for at least the previous year. Quirrell can not
> have been subject to the DADA curse, if there even was such a
> thing.

Mitchell:
HEY HP-Land people. Me and a friend had a conversation regarding
this. I think JKR is VEEEERY good at wording DD's words. I believe
that when he said that he's never been able to hold a teacher in
the DADA position, he never said that he could have never hold one
at the school. I've always been under the impression that Quirrell
had been at Hogwarts for a while. I believe that Quirrell may have
been the DADA for a year then for whatever reason, taught another
subject a differnt year then returned to the post of DADA the next.
Just my view.