[HPforGrownups] ps/ss chapter 5

[Alcuin York]

No: HPFGUIDX 192524

Liz:

I seem to remember something about Voldy cursing the job when he wasn't
accepted for it. Was he just out of school? And also, I'm sure Harry was
told quite early on that the DADA job was cursed. If Quirrell started it,
then Harry wouldn't have needed to be told!

Me:
No, that was a number of years after he was out of school. He worked at Borgin and Burkes immediately after he left Hogwarts, then went on his mysterious hiatus after he killed Hepzibah Smith. When he asked Dumbledore for the job, he was already disfigured by all the horcrux manufacturing he did while in hiding. But that was still before his rise to power, and so long before Quirrell.
IIRC, the only thing said about the DADA job in PS/SS was that Snape wanted it but didn't get it; I don't recall the curse being mentioned until later in the series (but I might be mistaken about that).

Chris