In the Half Blood Prince, Dumbledore shows Harry his memory of Voldemort's request. When Voldemort is not granted the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, it is said that he cursed the job. Dumbledore himself says,'We haven't been able to keep a teacher for more than a year ever since the post was refused to Lord Voldemort.'
But in the first book, Hagrid introduces Quirell to Harry in the Leaky Cauldron as 'the DADA teacher' at Hogwarts. Even at school, Harry asks Percy 'Who is the teacher talking to Professor Quirell?'...refering to Snape,
And Percy replies, 'Oh! You already know Professor Quirell.....'
Dumbledore didn't even introduce Quirell to the school...while he introduced Lockhart and Moody in other books.
Which means Quirell was already a teacher at Hogwarts. So isn't Dumbledore's statement that he hadn't been able to keep the DADA teacher for more than a year false?
2007-03-22 05:15:33 · 13 answers · asked by Malfoy vs Potter 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
very very good point. ahhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
you are now going to have me re reading all those books to make sure lmao .
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2007-03-22 05:24:54 · answer #1 · answered by lilangelwasdevil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The folks at the Harry Potter Lexicon believe you are right. Melissa Erin Friedline wrote an essay about it, suggesting that Quirrell has been the DADA teacher for upwards of 4 years, having worked a year or two, then taken a year off to go on the tour in which he encountered Voldemort, then returned for the year prior to Harry's first. I've linked the essay below.
Food for thought!
2007-03-22 12:33:37 · answer #2 · answered by Belinda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prof. Quirell could have been at Hogwarts as a teacher of another subject the previous year? Perhaps that is the reason that no introduction was required.
2007-03-22 12:34:31 · answer #3 · answered by sugar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've thought about that. I decided that maybe Quirell was a teacher, just not the DADA teacher before.
2007-03-22 12:27:01 · answer #4 · answered by holly golightly 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Professor Quirrel taught there before, but the year prior to the first book Quirrel took the year off to get some experience in the Black Forest. That doesn't mean he taught DADA before the first book though, he could have taught something else.
2007-03-22 12:33:12 · answer #5 · answered by people suck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a point I have thought about also. However, JKR may not have had anything to do with it. It may have been editorial. Remember, when she wrote the first book, there was no way she or her publishers knew what the success of the book would be. She was just another children's book author to them then. So they could made some arbitrary changes at that time "to increase marketability".
2007-03-22 12:27:25 · answer #6 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe. quirrel ended up leaving harry's first year anyways because he had voldemort living in the back of his head. Maybe Quirrel was at the school the last part of the school term before harry became a student. ASK THE AUTHOR!!
2007-03-22 12:21:48 · answer #7 · answered by babygirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had wondered that myself. There really is no way to explain it, except (of course) for the fact that Voldermort was occupying the back half of Quirell's head. . .
2007-03-22 12:26:03 · answer #8 · answered by megan nichole 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, he probably taught DADA before that and then maybe he was already introduced to the school before the sorting. We may never know...but you could try writing to the publisher of Harry Potter and they can ask Rowling for you.
2007-03-22 19:35:37 · answer #9 · answered by tapper 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
may be he was already introduced the year before when he came for hogwarts to join.
even in book 6, minerva takes up her post as the headmistress of hogwarts for the next year.
2007-03-22 12:26:36 · answer #10 · answered by pprr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps having voldemort bonded with him negated the effects of whatever voldemort had done to the position.
2007-03-22 12:36:42 · answer #11 · answered by Krayden 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋