BTW, is Quirrel's name ever revealed as Quirinus in canon? Or is it just a commonly accepted fanonical invention?

 

It makes it sound like you're a fucking idiot. I never had a problem with that...

You do wonder why he isn't introduced at the start-of-term announcements though, and how Percy knows he's teaching D.A.D.A. So, she might just have pulled the curse out of her arse somewhere along the line; after all I don't see how it's crucial to the plot.

 

Okay, for one, Voldemort entered Quirrell's head AFTER Quirrell failed to get the Sorcerer's stone at Gringotts.

Next, the quote obviously meant that Snape was after the DADA position, which at that time was Quirrell's job. In third year, I believe, someone calls it 'Lupin's Job' when someone else asks why Snape was glaring at Lupin so intensely. (They were wrong, but that isn't the point...)

Percy knew Quirrell's name because Quirrell was a teacher there the year before. Either that, or Percy knew his name because he was made a Prefect and was informed of it on the train.

Or Rowling just screwed up. That wouldn't surprise me. Frankly, though, this is a minor plot hole if it even is one, and it is centered around the way you read a single sentence.

What we should be focusing on is the fact that someone with horrible grammar (the OP) is writing a story. Egads, mates...

 

I remember a quote from the books that I believe Hagrid said. It was to the effect that "Quirrel vacationed in the Forests of Albania and when he came back he wasn't the same". Then -whoever it was- went on to say that he was now afraid of his own shadow. This means that Hagrid knew him before Harry's first year, which means that Quirrel either taught at the school the prior year or they knew each other from some random place.

Nothing is random in professional writing, despite JKR's skill at presenting things in just such a way. Quirrel must have been a teacher at the school, then, as there is no other reason that could logically apply.

My theory is that Voldemort's presence in Quirrel's head actually cause the curse to malfunction in the sense that he honestly was a different person when he came back to the school. His body was possessed so the magic that drove the curse must have recognized that this was not the same man as before. Either that, or Voldemort's presence there stopped the curse as he's the one who created it. Either sound plausible.

 

Or he was teaching another course... The curse only affects the DADA position.

And it is very plausible that Hagrid knew Quirrell simply because he had seen the man when he had first signed up for the job- before he went to Albania and became a Voldy-thrall.

The fact of the matter is that this is a pointless discussion. There are so many possibilities that focusing on one of them is idiotic. Yes, Rowling could have, and probably did, screw up, but it is just as possible that she didn't.

So, Snarf, don't come into my room whining about how Quirrell OBVIOUSLY was the DADA teacher for years when there is just as much evidence to the contrary- and to multiple other things in between... douche (We're twin brothers btw).

 

I actually thought that Quirrel taught at Hogwarts, then left for a few years while he went to Albania, then came back. Seemed pretty clear to me.

 

'Tis. And as said before, he was teaching Muggle Studies two years previously. Doesn't explain when Dumbledore was planning to announce that there was a new D.A.D.A. teacher, but let us agree with HBP: we don't give a fuck.

 

Yes.

And don't use 'begging the question' if you can't use it correctly.

'Begging the question' is one of the most commonly misused phrases, as well as 'for all intents and purposes'.

If you don't know these, and the differences between then/than, their/there/they're, your/you're/, accept/except, affect/effect, etc. you shouldn't be writing fanfiction.